RS> @COLS: 132 RS> Re: Desired Living Document (section): Author Compliance RS> By: mark lewis to Rob Swindell on Sun Apr 14 2019 09:10 am
>> >> On 2019 Apr 14 01:32:20, you wrote to me: >> >> ON>>> That would make ^aCOLS: 80^m make a little more sence ;) >> >> ml>> i don't know... i understand it for what it is intended to be used >> ml>> for but why do i want to display a message artifically restricted >> to >> ml>> 80cols on my 125 character wide terminal? >> >> RS> Sorry, but you don't understand the intention of those control line >> RS> then. I'd be happy to discuss it. >> >> maybe i don't fully understand it, then... why would i or my terminal >> care about the width of the original writer's screen i we're not going >> to use that value on our end some how?
RS> It has nothing to do with artificially restricting anything. It allows an RS> intelligent message viewer (e.g. Synchronet) to re-wrap messages for nice RS> display by knowing the difference between a 39 character line of text that RS> was: a. that length because of the result of a word-wrapping due to being RS> written with a 40 column terminal, or b. that length because the author RS> intended for the line to be short (e.g. drawing a table)
RS> It allows an intelligent viewer to make *more* use of the available RS> columns to display messages while retaining the formatting originally RS> intended (hopefully) by the message's author.
Is not that, why Fidonet makes a distict between a hard and a soft return 0d versus 8d
Kees
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