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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, William R. Ward writes:
> > Any of those would break words in half. (The = at the end isn't guaranteed
> > to occur at a line break.)
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> It's usually at a line break, though, isn't it?
On the well-behaved e-mail clients, yes. On the worse clients, they jam a
whole paragraph into a single line. I saw one which resulted in a line 890
characters long.(!)
> And even so it is
> better than what is currently displayed;
I agree -- a hideously long line is better than one that's full of hdideous
= and =XX codes.
> further refinements could be
> made to make it better yet...
It'd be hard to back-port to older messages though (although I'll be saving
original backup copies of any mods, so it would be possible to re-do them
with an improved algorithm).
> Or just let the browser do the word wrapping in this case.
Well, see that's part of the problem. The webserver outputs <TD NOWRAP> so
that the messages aren't fighting with the column on the right for screen
space. It prevents regular messages from coming out like this:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxx
But I think I'll have a robust solution this week, because I need to solve
the text-wrapping problem once and for all for a larger class of text cases
for something related.
--Todd
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| (...) Yes, I've seen that too. You could always use Text::Wrap to reformat anything over 80 characters... (...) The biggest problem is the =3D in Brickshelf URL's. Even a special case to change =3D to = would be a huge help. (...) I assumed you (...) (21 years ago, 20-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Yes, that's what I meant. (...) It's usually at a line break, though, isn't it? And even so it is better than what is currently displayed; further refinements could be made to make it better yet... Or just let the browser do the word wrapping (...) (21 years ago, 19-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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