At 6:17 AM 8/25/93 -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
at a word bounday. My own guess is that one does NOT want the rule to
be to break at the half-way mark, but rather to break as close to the
right margin as you can get.
I wonder about that. People are accustomed to reading newspaper columns,
which
are uniform short lines. I know from experience that people bitch a lot
when
they get text that has straggling words.
I wonder about that. People are
accustomed to reading newspaper columns,
which are uniform short lines. I know
from experience that people bitch a lot
when they get text that has straggling
words.
If the remainder is substantially less than
a line long, you probably want it right-shifted some amount, perhaps
STARTING at column 38 (or whatever).
If you right-shift it, how does a MIME reader know that all that whitespace
is unintentional? There is QP for "ignore this line break" but not for
"ignore this run of spaces", unless I missed it. I can imagine uses for
such a thing, but it's not there, is it?
But I repeat, this is a human factors question and the questions should
be answered according to whatever works best for reader comprehension.
Agreed. Opinions anyone?
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