Hallo Magnus and Mary. 13 Feb. Manus wrote:
Thanks for the info. all is surely right, but I don't think DMB "wants" anything he's just a lazy ignorant who don't give a damn what inconveniences he causes ;-) Bless him! But shame on me, I found a toggle under the "reader" heading that said "wrap long lines" and that did the trick ... regarding DMB that is, but when left on your and other well edited posts get scrambled and the handy ">"s are also removed, so it's a drag. BTW Pegasus Mail has line length in centimeters and inches, not in characters, and this latest version has 145 as standard, this I find too long and changes it manually to 110 cm, wish I found a way to make that standard but ... phew! And just to pick "knits" I don't see the idea of ..."write whole paragraphs without having to end the paragraph until it's logically finished ..." when the program switches to new lines automatically Thanks anyway Bodvar . > 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 > > > 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/ > > > 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/
