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Re: ">" line wrapping subtleties
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 8 Jun 2003 05:09:15 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:
> Do you mean that you go in and edit text in the quoted ">" lines?
Normally, no, but in this case I was going through and doing heavy tweakage
to the original text to make it a bit more interesting to read.
> I was guessing that's what happened... you typed something that caused the
> paragraph to reformat, and your browser joined all those separate lines into
> one big single line.
Er, sorta. I actually did most of the reformat myself, by deleting ">"
marks in the middle of lines, linking up broken lines, and generally tweaking
the length of text. I've just gotten used to doing that with nearly ten years
of e-mail, and I've always let the lines wrap to each other instead of using
carriage returns because I personally find it less offensive to get the ">"
randomly interspersed in the text block than to have the last word of every line
get wrapped to their own lines.
> I suppose the server ought to break ">" lines if there are
> multiple ">" characters on the line.
Neat idea, but I thought you might like to see how that can backfire before
you go ahead with it:
> I suppose the server ought to break "
> " lines if there are
> multiple "
> " characters on the line.
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| (...) OK, that's consistent with the way <TEXTAREA WRAP=SOFT> behaves. (...) Do you mean that you go in and edit text in the quoted ">" lines? I was guessing that's what happened... you typed something that caused the paragraph to reformat, and your (...) (21 years ago, 1-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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