| From: | Mark Steedman <RSMS@******.EEE.RGU.AC.UK> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Submissions - carrige returns etc |
| Date: | Thu, 14 Sep 1995 11:21:13 GMT |
as this is of general list interest
> >My major concern is whether I should add in carrage returns and format it to
> >a standard 80 columns or not.
>
> For what it's worth, I don't put CRs except at the end of the paragraph when
> I write messages, and it doesn't seem to go wrong anywhere (at least that I
> know of).
your mail comes out ok but some folks seem to send out mail that does
not have line feeds in it. i suspect Unix and very wide screens. This
poses problems in that having to scan across the screen for each line
is a real pain, and my mailer at least gives up at about 200
characters wide, i have seen Shadowrn messages get lines cut off by
this!
it could be worth a reminder on this generally, though i understand
the sentiments on hard returns, this message only has them at the end
of paragraphs but the mailer line feed sit to about 70- 72 characters
wide.
but only if i type on a line, below is result of insert one space
then delete it in quoted text, as you can see Gurths post wrapped at
my mailers width while the stuff above that was simply quoted is left
alone.
> I think you should just use the two guidelines you put there at
> the beginning, and don't worry about 80-column text. Only add CRs
to the end
> of the paragraphs, because otherwise I have to remove all of them
by hand (I
> can't simply say "replace CR by nothing" because then it would
totally fuck > it all up)
>
> --
> Gurth@******.nl
Mark
