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~( __ _"o Was another beautiful day, Sat, 25 Mar 2006,
@ @ at 10:50:33 +0100, when Stephane Bouvard [ML] wrote:
>> Much better - the text is nicely wrapped now.
> That's only a matter of taste, for me, your text is wrapped too small,
> your message only use 1/4 of the width of my screen, leaving 75% of
> unused white space (in fact gray, i do not like white background to
> read emails, especialy when 75% of the width is unused and filled by
> the background :))...
It's very easy to overcome this agoraphobic feeling simply by filling up
the unused space with something else, or using a large, or extra large,
fonts.
It also might be a matter of just a taste, yes, exactly this. I, for
instance, prefer very few pieces of furniture in rooms, for I love to
feel the space, and to use it myself. Aside that I love, sometimes, to
ride my roller-skates. And so...if I'd had all this space loaded from
wall to wall, I could only rip my shirt and possibly the rest if any up
and scream. For me it would be an experience of an ultimate
distastefulness, and this would be my usual, aesthetic and kinesthetic,
reaction.
> It's something i never understood : why the width of the display
> should be defined by the writer of a mail and not by the recipient ?
> the writer cannot know wich screen the recipient would use, resulting
> most of the time in a wrongly defined wrap width...
If Shakespeare would hang around live, he would, I recon, give you a
better answer. I, though, can offer just this one: The writer _never_
knows what kind of a mind his work will encounter and enter.[1] If he
would know this in advance he would only rip his shirt and possibly the
rest if any up and scream.
That's why people have invented margins.
> When a mail is not hardwrapped, as the reader, if i want to read the
> mail with 76 columns, i just ask it to my mail reader program, but if
> i want to use a bigger or a smaller width i still can... when the mail
> is hard wrapped i cannot, the writer choosed for me the width i *must*
> use.
Yes. He does so because the matter of formatting is not always just a
matter of taste, be it good or bad.
> Much more : try to read a hardwrapped mail (76 columns) on a 70
> columns screen, it's a real pain (yes : i read sometimes my emails on
> a pda, with less than 76 columns width).
Pain is sometimes good, for it's teaching us what we need to learn, if
we otherwise are {not prone|prune} to. (-;
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[1] Monsieur Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade explains it
excellently somewhere in "Quills".
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