Hi Curtis, >> Is it still considered "good" to have free mass text (not manual >> ascii-tables, quotes or the like) automatically wrapped at (e.g.) 70 >> characters? > > For e-mail, yes. > > Most e-mail clients will wrap unformatted text at the window width. > TB! is one such client. This means that if all were to send me > unwrapped e-mail text, I'd have to read mail wrapped at my current > viewer width. As a result, it would wrap at a width that's not > comfortable for reading.
Yep, that is true. So I've got one more argument for wrapping! Thanks! >> On the other hand there is the "contra" that text cannot be pasted >> easily into other apps when wrapped, and that nowadays nearly every >> client auto wraps incoming mail correctly. > > Unless I'm misunderstanding you, I've used many clients and this is > not true. I mean the case when I copy text from an email and insert it into, say, a word processor (not another email client). Then I've got the breaks still in there, which is often unwanted. Most of the time I can write myself a macro removing single breaks and making single breaks from double breaks, but that is *my* way to deal with such things, and not optimal. But I must admin I seldomly use text from an email that way, so thats no argument so far. -- Thanks for your infos! Martin PS: Again sorry not to use autowrap. nPOP cuts in the middle of words so I've deactivated autowrap. ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.51.10 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
