There is one thing - jokes aside - that has troubled me: I am never confident enough that my text will not be unwrapped here and there.
FWIW, the emails you send never seem to need excessive re-wrapping. Eudora recognizes your paragraphs and auto-quotes things just fine.
lots of emails where the text needs rewrapping (you know, in the middle of a sentence it continues to the next line unnecessarily).
Bogus setting in the sender's email client. Or sending using hard returns. Or wrapped lines that have been deeply quoted (> > > >) and never re-wrapped properly.
There are obviously hidden characters telling the prgm to do this.
Nope. Nuthin really hiddin. 'Tis plain text. :)
Text you type is done with soft-wrapping. That means each paragraph is just one looooong line. A carriage return character says where the paragraph ends. Your email client automagically wraps the text (inserts imaginary carriage returns) to make the it fit on multiple lines, within your window's width.
When you actually send the email, your client either leaves the lines looooong or it hard-wraps the lines (inserts real carriage return characters) at a specific (or slightly less than) line width setting, typically between 72 and 78 or 80 characters per line. The receiving client figures this out and handles it accordingly (soft-wrapping or un-hard-wrapping etc).
When you see lines that are hard wrapped badly... that's primarily an indication of someone using a line length of greater than 80 characters. Some people do this because they use itty bitty font sizes and think that means more characters fit on a "line".
...80 characters being the ad-hoc standard we "grew" from the days of the 80-column punch card. 72 characters is where the actual "data" portion of the card ended. The other 8 columns were for a sequence number (so you could put the cards back in order after shuffling the deck). IBM loved this "standard" so much they kept it when we went to teletypes then CRTs...
- Dan.
ps. If you cringed as you read "shuffling the deck" you get extra points. Of course, that dates you a bit too! LOL :)
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