Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]> writes: >Hi Norm, > >> That's disconcerting. For more than a decade now, the default for my >> editor was for no line wrapping. I inserted new lines to generate my >> own formatting. But some recipients complained that my Emails are >> "jagged". This was caused by their Email client inserting its own line >> endings. > >Are you sure that's the cause? You "inserted new lines" how? With >fmt(1) or similar, or manually?
With my own Java program. > If you're using a fixed-width font and >they're reading it proportionally then two lines of 72 characters may >look different lengths to them. Add on any variance because you're >splitting lines and not fmt(1) or vim, e.g. gqap, and that may be >"jagged". > >> So I gave up trying to control the format in which recipients see my >> Email. Just last week, I wrote the code to make line wrapping be the >> default whenever I'm editing a file in my drafts folder whose name is >> all digits. > >By that you mean each paragraph is one long line logically but the >editor breaks it at a decent point, e.g. end of word, to make it easier >to view? If so, you need to be careful of the 998 limit that Ken's >pointed out; sendmail for one, IIRC, is an MTA that will break >over-long lines, inserting a `!' at the end of each line that continued >originally. > >> So... do I conform to standards or make my my recipients unhappy? In >> passing I note that almost all the Email I get, not from >> [email protected], has very long lines. > >I send text/plain with lines no longer than 72 and blank lines between >paragraphs. That's what I had been doing for years. And I did get complaints. >I've not had complaints of jaggedness but it certainly >wouldn't adjust to fit the width of the recipient's window. The >long-lined emails you're receiving may say in the MIME-headers that the >text is to be `flowed', i.e. re-formatted to fit the viewer's display; >I'm not sure which part of nmh can handle that, mhl through mhshow? > >Cheers, Ralph. Norman Shapiro _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
