Tuesday, May 02, 2000, 5:58:49 PM, Allie wrote:
The reason why I wish to clarify this is because with TB!, when composing
and the lines get wrapped, these CR's, although inserted by the editor,
really equate to hard CR's. The wrapping isn't redone upon sending as far
as I can tell. This is
Hello Alexander,
on Tue, 2 May 2000, at 16:32:46 sender's local time (timezone UTC+0400),
Alexander V. Kiselev wrote:
My suggestion would be, never to cancel hard returns. This should solve
everything.
AVK Allie, will you please understand that within plain/text medium
AVK there is no way
Hello Gary,
on Tue, 2 May 2000, at 17:13:57 sender's local time (timezone UTC-0600),
Gary Luther wrote:
GL Well it finally happened. the "autoformat" topic went over
GL the edge. Not only has it wasted a lot of bandwidth but it has
GL also shown that if a topic is
Wednesday, May 03, 2000, 9:26:41 AM, Michael wrote:
Yes, Steve's message was rude. But: Apart from the flaming I can't find
any wrong statement in there. He's not being nice, but he's right with
what he's saying in terms of the topic.
Trust me, the moderators have dinged me for it. I
Dear Allie,
you wrote on Tuesday, May 02, 2000, 02:40:35:
[snip]
AM I write:
AM The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
AM The line above is not to be auto-formatted. I then decide to re-edit and
AM insert some extra words.
AM The quick brown fox, before making a great
Hi there!
On 1 May 00, at 19:40, Allie Martin wrote
about "Re: auto-format is too robotic isn'":
My suggestion would be, never to cancel hard returns. This should solve
everything.
Allie, will you please understand that within plain/text medium there is no way
for the program to
On Tue, 2 May 2000 16:32:46 +0400, Alexander V. Kiselev wrote:
Allie, will you please understand that within plain/text medium there is
no way for the program to distinguish between _your_ hard returns and
the hard returns inserted by the line-wrapping algorithm?
Pardon my slowness for
Hi there!
On 2 May 00, at 14:57, Allie Martin wrote
about "Re: auto-format is too robotic isn't it?":
Allie, will you please understand that within plain/text medium there is
no way for the program to distinguish between _your_ hard returns and
the hard returns inserted b
Tuesday, May 02, 2000, 2:25:04 PM, Alexander wrote:
Allie, no personal offence, please! I didn't mean to insult you, just wanted
to stress the idea that if we stay on the grounds of _plain_text_ medium, we
need to take into account that there is _no_ paragraph concept applicable to
this
Hi there!
On 2 May 00, at 14:48, Steve Lamb wrote
about "Re: auto-format is too robotic isn't it?":
Mistake #1. You're thinking that there are only lines. I see only data
which can be represented any number of ways. Let's just say that just
because the limitation e
Tuesday, May 02, 2000, 3:14:59 PM, Alexander wrote:
Mistake #1 on your side: you think plain ASCII is a limitation of some
(unknown to me) sort, whereas _I_ think ASCII is a _power_, a well-thought
standard that those guys who invented "soft returns" and things alike (read:
M$ with its Word
My suggestion would be, never to cancel hard returns. This should solve
everything.
AVK Allie, will you please understand that within plain/text medium there is no way
AVK for the program to distinguish between _your_ hard returns and the hard
AVK returns inserted by the line-wrapping
Hi there!
On 2 May 00, at 15:38, Steve Lamb wrote
about "Re: auto-format is too robotic isn't it?":
Okay, this has been my last message to this list. I'm sick and tired of those
AMERICAN IDIOTS over here who can only shout, can only be unnecessarily
rude to others. The next
AVK Mistake #1 on your side: you think plain ASCII is a limitation of some
AVK (unknown to me) sort, whereas _I_ think ASCII is a _power_, a well-thought
AVK standard that those guys who invented "soft returns" and things alike (read:
AVK M$ with its Word and heaps of others) just plain
On Wed, 3 May 2000 01:25:04 +0400, Alexander V. Kiselev wrote:
8
In my previous message I suggested that the indented line should be
considered as the paragraph _boundary_, note further that I suggested
this only as a quick fix to what we have right now (see also below).
This would mean
Hi Allie,
On Tuesday, May 02, 2000, 7:37:56 PM, you wrote in part about "auto-format is too
robotic isn't it?":
A OK, I understand what you were saying and see that it will indeed
A work though in a limited fashion. It was a problem with the wording
A of what you had said.
Personall
On Tue, 2 May 2000 14:48:06 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
8
Simple. The block which is a paragraph is the one defined with a hard CR
and the one that is not is defined with a soft CR. How TB! defines those is
up to the internal logic which is, as I demonstrated, not limited to the logic
of
Hello All;
Well it finally happened. the "autoformat" topic went over
the edge. Not only has it wasted a lot of bandwidth but it has
also shown that if a topic is discussed long enough that it will
eventually bring out the worst side of us. Hm!!
SUGGESTION:
Hi List,
this thread makes me wonder if I have a "delete thread on server"
option in the message dispatcher. I certainly don't want to download
this thread at NT$ 60/hour, average about 1K/min, when I get home.
Thanks.
--
Cheers,
Thomas.
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Dear Bat folk
I have started to use Auto-Format in Bat editor, and I wonder how to
make a hard-return in some situations. For example, with wrap-text set
at 70, I type a line like
a particular type of cartridge, and wonder if you are doing it right.
and as soon as I type a space at the end of
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Hello rellieb-cal,
Monday, May 01, 2000, 5:13:01 AM, you wrote:
rc Do I have to place a blank line in between these paragraphs
Yes, you do.
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Hi rellieb-cal,
On 01 May 2000 at 13:13:01 GMT +1000 (which was 04:13 where I
live) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote and made these points on the subject
of "auto-format is too robotic isn't it?":
Do I have to place a blank line in between these paragraphs
Yes.
if I intend to indent
On Mon, 1 May 2000 09:36:30 +0100, Marck D. Pearlstone wrote:
if I intend to indent the first line of that new paragraph with a
few blank spaces or whatever.
Sadly auto-format denies the possibility of using paragraph indent. It
suits my purposes perfectly because I don't indent
Hello Lionel,
Monday, May 01, 2000, 3:38:09 AM, you wrote:
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LEM Hello rellieb-cal,
LEM Monday, May 01, 2000, 5:13:01 AM, you wrote:
rc Do I have to place a blank line in between these paragraphs
LEM Yes, you do.
You've found the one
Hi there!
On 1 May 00, at 18:05, Randy Robinson wrote
about "Re: auto-format is too robotic isn'":
You've found the one thing I hate about TheBat! It's the best
program around, but I guess you can't have everything! It has a
very strange idea of what autoformatting is. I wanted
On Mon, 1 May 2000 18:05:33 -0500, Randy Robinson wrote:
Hello Lionel,
Monday, May 01, 2000, 3:38:09 AM, you wrote:
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LEM Hello rellieb-cal,
LEM Monday, May 01, 2000, 5:13:01 AM, you wrote:
rc Do I have to place a blank line in between
On Tue, 2 May 2000 03:23:31 +0400, Alexander V. Kiselev wrote:
Well, it's of course less then perfect, but it can be _easily_ fixed (at
least, temporarily). The quick fix should be this one: "do not
autoformat indented lines plus never remove the spaces in the beginning
of any line". That's
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