[plug] Word Wrapping - Was - re: User names

[Paul Wilson]

From: Trevor Phillips <phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au>
> Paul Wilson wrote:
> >
> > > I'm starting to wonder why the hell do we have the CR key. Imagine C
code
> > > without CRs, that would be lovely to read and interpret.
> >
> > Agreed, however, C and mail messages are hardly the same thing.
>
> We have the CR to put in paragraph breaks and the like. Why do we need
> hard-CR's in E-Mail messages?? Because some mail readers don't wrap
> them, because it wasn't always like that. For text intended to be read,
> such as letters, documents, web-pages, it works best if text auto-wraps;
> the User says where it wraps, by choosing their page/window dimensions.
>
> It's all up to what editor you use, what email client you use, etc, and
> I don't think people will ever agree on the topic. ^_^

Quite, and there's no particular reason why we *should* all agree on email
client
s/w! Wrapping text in email is going to be a semi-religious issue for quite
some
time I suspect - at least until all clients manage to do it (will they
ever?).

Paul