On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 01:29:24AM +1000, Peter Jones wrote:
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 04:48 am, Ligesh wrote:
You need to change your stupid mail archiving software that does not
wrap lines properly.
You do realise, of course, that there is a specific reason that the
archive presents mail as it does?
This is a mailing list in which, more often than not, formatted
programming code (ie, procmail recipes) is posted. The formatting of
such code *must* be preserved by the archive -- and the only sure way of
achieving that, when presenting it in HTML, is by wrapping the entire
message in <pre></pre>. This has the desired effect of preserving all
formatting -- including indents, etc, exactly as typed. Any other method
of archiving program-code posts (such as google's method of adding a <br>
in the place of each carriage return) should be considered broken.
Of course, it has the side effect of causing single-line paragraphs to
disappear off the edge of the page.
Ok, so that's the reason for lines not wrapping around. I think some solution
is needed. A lot of people I know (professional writers actually) find it more
comfortable working with single line paragraphs. In fact, I used to use emacs,
and when arguing with them, their mails looked better (and more professional)
when juxtapositioned with mine, and that is one of the reasons why I dumped
emacs altogether. Of course, single line paragraphs are easier to manage too.
Once I get 'par', I will try to configure mutt to trim the message just before
sending.
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:: Ligesh :: http://ligesh.com
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