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Gleb Hlebov to Anton Shepelev:

AS>> but why are you not hard-wrapping your text at 72
AS>> charachters per line or thereabout?
GH>
GH> I don't know if there's even a strict rule or guideline
GH> that prescribes to do so.

I believer FidoNet follows the convensions for BBS, Usenet,
and e-mail, where text should be hard-wrapped to about 72
characters per line, because the standard does not require
client programs to support any wrapping on the receiving end
while displaying articles.  Those who need wrapping shall
use format=lowed:

           https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2646

which is essentially the same hard-wrapped text but an extra
space at the end of each line to indicate that clients /may/
rewrap it if the support it, but they are not required to do
so, because the format is backwards-compatible and still
usable in classic readers that display text as is.  Simply
using one line per paragraph is non-standard and wrong.

I for one invariable use hard-wrapped text because it is
beautiful, device-independent, and widely supported by
clients and text editors. It guarrantees my text looks the
way I wrote it.

GH> Or is there something in FTSC conventions addressing
GH> this?

I will have to look it up.

GH> I recently asked about this "issue" in ru.golded and a
GH> few people told me it wouldn't be a good idea to hard-
GH> wrap lines to a fixed value, and there's no such option
GH> in GoldED's config either.

Do they say one line per paragraph has been the FidoNet
convention back from 1980s?  It doubt it can be true,
because the rest of the world relied on hard-wrapped text
for all communication.

GH> I know that Vim can do it (as I type this text) and this
GH> is what I thought GoldED was capable of doing as well.

Vim is in fact specifically /designed/ to work with with
hard-wrapped text, whereas configuring it for soft wrapping
takes extra effort and even then is not as comfortable.

GH> If you can set up your news reader to do the same it
GH> would solve the issue with extra-long lines.

My newsreader is already wrappeing long lines, but it does
not help.  They are too wide, forcing me to squeeze the
window to get a comfortable line length.

GH>>> BTW is it okay to use "hang around" without seeming a
GH>>> bit too "informal", or should I have said "stay"? :-)

AS>> Surely /to hang around/ is informal unless the speaker
AS>> be a bat or a sloth (the three-toed variety).

GH> Oh, you be too smart. :-) Snakes can also hang upside
GH> down, and some monkeys, and possums too.

Sure, but those other critters are not the hang-around
types.

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