Craig, Krimel, Platt, All 18 June Craig wrote:
> If there is a help function in your email system, search for > "carriage return/line feed" or "CR/LF". For instance, if it is SHIFT > + ENTER, then entering those keys will force a CR/LF. That may do the trick, but do you think those lazy fellows manage to operate two keys at a time? ;-) Krimel wrote > Yeah, I e-mailed Horse about that back in March. I take it you are > referring to the way those posts look on the MoQ site. At least at > my house those e-mails are badly formatted but no stretched across > the page. They are stretched after downloading as well There is the scroll bar of course but it's most cumbersome and if posts look interesting I open them in reply mode. > As people keep getting better and better hardware and widescreen > displays the preferred width of webpage viewing has changed over the > years. I think Horse intended to let the width of the browser float > out to whatever width anyone chooses to view it in. Unfortunately, > Dave and gav are using web based e-mail from Microsoft and Yahoo and > those services don't seem to be inserting any line endings. As a > result, the MoQ web page sees every paragraph as one big long line > of text and formats itself to that widt Yes, that's the problem, the cheap "Windows Mail" and/or "Outlook Express". Why not get a most advanced mail program like "Pegasus" or "Eudora"? They are free and comes in several sizes, but (at least Pegasus) has this > that indicates the text of your correspondent and double and triple such for previous layers of correspondence. Maybe THIS may look messy when answered by other systems, your [brackets] are exemplary and I would adopt that if agreed on. Platt wrote > Good question, Bo. Some here seem to be infected with > long-line-itus, making their posts an inordinate bother to read. DMB > is the primary culprit. As for gav, well, I just give up. The length > of line is easy to control in e-mail software and should be no more > than 75 characters. Even I, a computer clod, know that. Looks like you and I use the same settings - 110millimeter in my case - but there is a "rich text" key in addition (HTML I guess) and if this gets activated the long lines appear (in the final form) I have developed some eyesight problem and bothering with all these strange formats and styles strains them unduly. Bo Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
