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Re: Line wrapping
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 9 Dec 1998 02:35:27 GMT
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Tom McDonald writes:
> Most of the time I forget to clean up long lines. Sorry about that, but • they
> don't look long when I type them. I was curious as to why lugnet doesn't
> do that automatically, or should I even ask? Since I'm not an • administrator
> I have no idea of the amount of time you put into this thing, but I'm
> assuming it's quite a bit. Thanks for the continued great service.
I was kind of crossing my fingers and hoping that people would only be using
browsers which support Netscape's WRAP=HARD extension of the <TEXTAREA>
tag. It looks like you're running MSIE 3.02 for Win95, which doesn't support
the feature.
As a workaround, I wrote a line-wrapper which wraps any lines that the browser
doesn't wrap. I'm posting this reply using MSIE 3.02 to verify the workaround.
(These lines should be wrapped at 79 characters.)
Unfortunately, Microsoft in their typical infinite wisdom has written MSIE 3.02
so that it uses a proportional-spaced font by default in the <TEXTAREA>
tag. :-/ (This means that a line of all i's or l's has many more characters
than a line of all m's or w's, which means that if you put explicit line breaks
into the text, they're not in the right places for netnews because netnews is
designed to be monospaced rather than proportional.) I'm not sure how it is in
MSIE 4.
Anyway, if this message comes out properly wrapped, then from now on you won't
need to worry about wrapping when posting from the web interface.
(Or, at the very least, you won't need to worry about it much.)
--Todd
p.s. Quoted text (lines beginning with > characters) is allowed to grow
arbitrarily long. Super-long URLs and hugely long words are also kept intact.
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| Todd, Most of the time I forget to clean up long lines. Sorry about that, but they don't look long when I type them. I was curious as to why lugnet doesn't do that automatically, or should I even ask? Since I'm not an administrator I have no idea of (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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