ml> the evolved defacto format for quoting in fidonet has evolved...
ml> 1. reflow paragraphs instead of truncating lines when quoting... ml> 2. recognise older quotes and reflow the paragraph properly recognizing ml> those older quotes and keeping them together properly... 3. when ml> recognizing older quotes, append one ">" to the end of that existing ml> quote to show that it is quoted again... 4. only add a quote prefix when ml> reflowing and quoting a newly quoted paragraph...
Ironically GoldED makes a mess of this when quoting it! Geez. 2016 and we still can't get quoting right.
I just checked and both timEd and Msged do it properly.
IIRC years ago Carol Shenkenberger's software had a problem truncating lines when quoting messages?
Anyway, originally I was just going to point out that the reflow is traditionally done at ~75 columns, so if anyone's writing a short document explaining how quoting in Fido works, that should be mentioned.
--- GoldED+/BSD 1.1.5-b20160201 * Origin: Blizzard of Ozz, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (3:633/267)
