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 Message 2528 
 Nicholas Boel to Carlos Navarro 
 space oddity (fixes) 
 20 Apr 24 11:52:56 
 
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TZUTC: -0500
TID: hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-02-05
Hello Carlos,

On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 23:38:00 +0200, you wrote:

 NB>> Wouldn't '/nowrap' just be 'flowed=on', which would then leave the
 NB>> formatting to HotdogEd, which doesn't seem to be doing so properly?

 CN> HotdogEd (like may other newsreaders) doesn't support format=flowed, so
 CN> it doesn't join the wrapped lines with trailing space.

So, if HotdogEd doesn't support format=flowed, wouldn't it be better to use
'flowed=off'?

Or while using HotdogEd with flowed=off, it still wraps at the 72/79 columns
set by jam/smapinntpd, which then HotdogEd would still wrap the text early
because it doesn't have that many columns on the screen?

 CN> Here's an example. This is a normal paragraph, a long line with a CR+LF
 CN> (NNTP) or CR (FTN) at the end:

 CN> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod
 CN> tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim
 CN> veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea
 CN> commodo consequat.

 CN> The same paragraph but with format=flowed (wrapped at 40 instead of the
 CN> usual 72):

 CN> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur[SP]
 CN> adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor[SP]
 CN> incididunt ut labore et dolore magna[SP]
 CN> aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis[SP]
 CN> nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris[SP]
 CN> nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

 CN> [SP] is a regular space (ASCII 32)

Both of these look fine on Thunderbird (with flowed=on), as well as tin (with
flowed on and off), and slrn (with flowed on), and I'm still unsure
format=flowed is supported in either of the last two mentioned.

Maybe tin and slrn can deal with incoming format=flowed, but just don't post
that way..?

So is it a HotdogEd problem that you're looking to come up with a work around
for, specifically?

Regards,
Nick

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