On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > I tend to write my emails and other documents with a target line length > approaching but less than 68 characters
Keith, So we've noticed. :-) > So, what do you folks find easiest to read, and what is your tolerance > range? I expect some will respond like "all lines MUST be exactly 72 > characters, use a thesaurus to find words with the correct spacing" or "my > enter key is broken so it is all one line." Such responses will be > weighted appropriately. My MUA is alpine running in an xterm and using Joe's Own Editor (joe). The line length is set to 78 characters. The virtual terminal window geometry is 130x40 characters. This helps with all the html-formatted mail that is the norm with Microserfs and those using GUI mail writers. There's something about Windows' mail tools that cause each paragraph to be a single line, and so many of these messages have 2 or 3 lines between paragraphs. I suppost the spacing is ancient memory of using typrewriters. Alpine does a nice job of presenting these missives in a text-readable format. When I respond to one, I reformat the long line of each paragraph to a maximum line length of 78 chars (using the joe shortcut of ^k-j). This has been my standard for almost 2 decades now and no one's complained about it. This message is formatted to that line length so see how it appears to you. Regards, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
