Hi Bo & Magnus, Glad Magnus was able to help you out, Bo. What he's talking about with regard to paragraphs is that instead of hitting <enter> at the right margin, we all just keep typing and let our email editor do the wrapping for us. It will auto wrap at the right margin no matter where that is. So if I type this in a really wide window I can resize it and the words will automatically wrap anew when the size of the window is changed. This whole statement was just written this way.
Now compare it to this statement. <enter> And again, I'm going to hit <enter> right here at the end. But here are those same lines above without hitting enter until I reach the end and am ready to start a new paragraph. "Now compare it to this statement. And again, I'm going to hit <enter> right here at the end." The thing with the > marks for quoting a previous post introduces a problem. The software has to make a decision (often based on a setting like Magnus' 78 character line length) and artificially insert a hard break <enter> aka CRLF and add the > mark at the beginning of the next line. But once that > mark has been inserted, then you can no longer change the line length without ending up with the > marks no longer being at the beginning of the line. > A piece of quoted text might then start to > look like > this. Which is not > what you want. When (in this example) it should really look like this: > A piece of quoted text might then start to > look like > this. Which IS > what you want. This problem gets compounded with each successive quoting of previous posts. > > some text from 2 posts back. > > > and some from 3 posts back. The software is fixed at the (say) 78 character line length, but as the >>> marks multiply, then that first cut at 78 characters is now too long for a single line. The solution the software uses is to wrap a 2nd time but omit the > > > marks. > > > So you end up with this happening (pretend this is character 78 right here) And there's more following. Mary 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/
