On 25 October 1999 at 20:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] told the list:
TF>> What Marck quite rightly said at that time is that a CR is a CR;
TF>> in ASCII, there is no distinction between hard and soft CR. This
TF>> shut me up, because you need another indicator, flag or whatever
TF>> to tell a-f when it should wrap the next line into the character
TF>> and when not.
OS> If I type a newline, I want a newline. I wont ever type a newline
OS> if I don't want one, why should I?
You may not, but you have no choice in this, because once it has left
your intention via your fingertips it no more represents an
intentional newline than does the ones paragraph formatting has
inserted. They are represented in the editor by the same entity - a CR
(or possibly CR/LF pair).
How is the internal paragraph formatting logic supposed to distinguish
between your intentional newline and the ones elsewhere separating the
different lines of the same paragraph? The constraint is in the
permissible ASCII content formatting capabilities of mail / plain text
type data.
OS> Just look at what Word does: it formats all paragraphs as
OS> justified block if I want that, but it doesn't kill any newlines,
OS> which are taken as paragraph separators, of course.
A paragraph in Word is, in fact, treated as a single, continuous line
of text which ends at the paragraph mark. It has a whole wealth of
proprietary format representation in it's data which poor old ASCII
just can't use.
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.
Cheers,
Marck
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