Re: OT - Word wrap

From: Gerry Snyder <gcsnyd@loop.com>

John Montgomery wrote:
> 
> From: John Montgomery <monashee@junction.net>
> 
> Hello folks,
> 
> Sorry to air this message, but it may be of use in the end.
> 
> I have been noticing that when my messages are returned through
> iris-talk that the lines are broken at random places. 

I looked at some of your earlier posts and saw the effect you are describing.
(The short line below is the result my my interposing this comment.)

> I use Netscape 4
> and have looked everywhere I can think of to find a correction for this
> with no result. Does anyone have a suggestion?

Yes. My guess is that you are sending very long lines of text 
to the list, and some piece of software along the way said, 
"This line is longer than 80 characters (or even 72) long. 
Some software might have a problem with that. I will will 
break it up into two lines, making the first one as many 
whole words as fit in less than the limit of 80 characters, 
and generally leaving a very short second line." The paragraph below may
demonstrate.

Yes. My guess is that you are sending very long lines of text to the list, and
some piece of software along the way said, "This line is longer than 80
characters (or even 72) long. Some software might have a problem with that. I
will will break it up into two lines, making the first one as many whole words
as fit in less than the limit of 80 characters, and generally leaving a very
short second line.

Solutions?  Use a narrower window. Use a bigger font. Use a 
monospaced font instead of proportional (this almost always 
results in fewer characters per line). Manually break the 
lines by typing in carriage returns manually as I did in 
the first copy of the above paragraph and here. 

(Any one should suffice.)

I hope this helps
 
-Gerry with a lot of iris to plant and more on the way--whooooooooooppppeeeee
-- 
g*@loop.com    AIS Region 15
Warm, winterless Los Angeles
President of San Fernando Valley Iris Society
My work?  Helping generate data for http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo

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