Stuart Cheshire wrote:
- Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line
with a carriage return.
I'm sure that was all wonderful back in the century of teletypes and (if
you were very lucky) a 80-column VT100 terminal, but these days I read
email on devices ranging from my phone at one end of the spectrum to my
desktop computer with dual 30-inch displays at the other.
The assumption on line length is necessary to have multilevel
quotation ("> ", ">> ", etc., see above) with plain text.
On my 30-inch displays your hard-wrapped text appears as a thin narrow
ribbon of text no matter how wide the window is, and on my phone your
hard-wrapped lines are too long to fit so they get re-wrapped to that
charming long/short/long/short pattern so characteristic of hard-wrapped
text displayed on any device other than the one it was created on.
We know that we can use directives of structured text such as:
.in +3
...
.in -3
when necessary.
But, when plain text is good enough, we use plain text.
Assuming you have ASCII key board, 80-column assumption is
reasonable.
Masataka Ohta
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