15 Jun
2000
15 Jun
'00
6:15 p.m.
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Pete Turnbull wrote:
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Peter,
Sorry for causing any trouble. I only recently joined this group and I
wasn't aware of this groups' desire for 80 character line lengths limits.
Well, the convention is actually for less than 80; there's no set rule but
commonly-mentioned lengths are between 78 and 72. I *HAD* wrap turned on -- that was my point about
losing the indentations.
I could see what you typed in 78-column form, but there would be others on
this list who wouldn't be able to do that; and when you turn the wrap on,
the wrapped lines still don't get indented/quoted as God intended.
The problem that I frequently encounter, as a pine user, is that what is
neatly paragraphed when I read it simply runs off the right margin when
I try to reply. Makes a bit of a nuisance when wanting to include the
text for reference purposes. I must then re-paragraph the
beyond the margin part.
- don
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York