Hi Bo
I think what you see is when some write, they want to write whole paragraphs
without having to end the paragraph until it's logically finished. Practically,
that means not having to hit the return button until you have completed the
paragraph. This normally looks good in all mail programs as you enter the text,
the text are wrapped at the right border of the window so you can see it all.
However, this is just something that most programs do to fit all text in view,
it does not insert return characters in the text as you write. This can be seen
if you, when you have entered such a long line of text, either change the width
of the window, or remove/insert a word or two in the beginning of the paragraph.
Some programs handle this a bit differently, for example, my Thunderbird has a
setting that I have set at 78 characters, which means it wraps text after 78
characters. It doesn't matter how wide the window is. However, if I insert a
word in the beginning of the text, the whole paragraph is rearranged.
However, when I hit send, the program *does* insert such return characters in
the text, so after that, the paragraph is split up into lines and no trace of it
is left to the reader, unless I hit return twice after each paragraph, in which
case you will tell each paragraph apart with an empty line.
DMB's program doesn't insert such return characters. But that's not necessarily
a bad thing, because it leaves the written text in the more original form, and
leaves it up the mail reader program to format it as it see fit.
The real bugger for me is when one program is set to 80 characters, wrapping
each line at 80 chars. Then a reader program has a fixed setting at 78
characters, leaving the end of each and every line wrapped with a single word on
the next line, then the next line. Also, most mail programs adds those "> "
characters to indicate a quoted text, which adds 2 characters per line. So even
if the text was originally wrapped at 78 characters, the text now becomes 80,
resulting in some lines to be wrapped at the end anyway.
As you see, the problem is not as black and white as you might think at first
glance. Personally, I think it's always better to leave line wrapping up to the
mail *reader*, not the *sender*. And to help you here, I found this link:
http://www.pmail.com/faqs/faqs_wsg.htm
Perhaps you need to upgrade your Pegasus but it seems there's a rather easy way
to do it.
Regards,
Magnus
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