----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Dalton" <[email protected]>
> On 15 February 2011 22:43, K. Peachey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Release Notes will be corrected and formatted to make it appropriate > > for release, nothing is going to change it. The standard is for 80 > > (or > > is it 72) characters wide and it will be corrected if theres errors. > > This is just something that will always happen. > > -Peachey > > Why are we imposing such an outdated rule? CLIs and text editors got > the ability to automatically wrap text several decades ago. In fact, they *lost* the ability to automatically wrap text. They thought that was an acceptable tradeoff for gaining the ability to wrap *received* text if it was too long to fit. ^^^^^^^^ I've just proven why that's a bad tradeoff. Cheers, -- jra _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
