DL>> You know how email is wrapped at 82 characters by standard.
> Well, the recommended character limit is 80. But RFC standards state
> a range of 60-80 characters that is acceptable. This is a 'should'
> standard, not a 'must'. :-)
Knew it was something like that :) Not sure where 82 came from,
perhaps it's what one of the Linux ones took as a standard.
DL>> You know how in TB, whilst you're editing a message it wraps the
DL>> words just nicely to fit. However - what if I was to go back to the
DL>> above paragraph and add a few words to the first line? In TB, the
DL>> line just gets longer than 82 characters and you have to do a manual
DL>> ALT-L to put the paragraph back in place.
> This is without auto-format enabled.
How long's that been lurking there? All this time and I never noticed
it ;)
> Try enabling autoformat but *fasten your seatbelt* when you do it
> because you may be in for some jolts of surprises. :-)) To help tamper
> the anguish, remember that TB!'s editor denotes separate paragrahs by a
> blank line. The autoformat will, unrelentingly <g>, without remorse
> <vbg>, keep the line length as the user defined. You'll see what I mean.
I do see what you mean :-) There are times when I leave a line and
times when I don't depending on how important I think it is to start a
new paragraph... time to adapt or leave it :)
> When I saw the advantage to using a fixed width font, I went on the
> net to find a decent enough looking one and have.
Courier new is nice enough for me!
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