Hi Marck D. Pearlstone,
On Montag, 25. Oktober 1999 at 23:59:41 you wrote:
MDP> On 25 October 1999 at 20:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] told the list:
MDP> How is the internal paragraph formatting logic supposed to
MDP> distinguish between your intentional newline and the ones
MDP> elsewhere separating the different lines of the same paragraph?
MDP> The constraint is in the permissible ASCII content formatting
MDP> capabilities of mail / plain text type data.
Sorry, I'd have no problem doing that. One possibility is what you
just mentioned above. If the editor inserted, say, a CR/LF pair when
the user presses Return, it could easily use a single CR to mark those
lines that were formatted automatically. Also, they should be using a
multi-byte charset, there's enough space in there to use some magic
sequence as a mark.
> Now, if the guys at RIT wanted to make final formatting a function of
> transmission and work using display time wrapping of continuous
> strings then they might be able to do something about it, but I would
> suggest that IMHO would represent a major rework of some of TB!s core
> text handling components.
IMHO, the a-f function is just that, a function for display time
wrapping of continuous strings. The simple function "justify on
autowrap" wasn't, but as a-f does the formatting all the time, it has
to deal with the problem.
Anyway, this discussion arose when someone said he's not happy with
the way the function works. I'm not happy with it, because it's a
great function i'd really like to use, but the time I don't use now
for reformatting paragraphs, I use to reformat those I didn't ever
want formatted. It's not just the single/double CR problem, it's also
that formatting is done just about always. It even does it when I
insert some preformatted text from the clipboard!
Well, as someone also pointed out, it's a first try at a new function.
Maybe it will become better.
Oliver Sturm
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