Subj : Re: promotion, nostalgia, the future
To   : August Abolins
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Wed Feb 03 2021 21:54:50

On 03 Feb 2021, August Abolins said the following...
 AA>  CP> I still don't see a reason to flip to read, but that's just
 AA>  CP> my preference zi suppose.
 AA> 
 AA> Eg. ESSNASA would look better in the Horizontal.
 AA> 
 AA>   ESSNASA
 AA>   https://t.me/joinchat/VhhEf_t-5kBruh2k
 AA> 
 AA> The posts are slightly offset from the left margin, thus  
 AA> rendering the tail end of a line to wrap prematurely when  
 AA> viewing in the Vertical.
 AA> 
 AA> Other echos that do the same thing are FIDONEWS and FIDOGAZETTE  
 AA> when publishing the newsletters.
 AA> 
 AA> Even the BBS_ADS and ECHO_ADS often use a wider display for  
 AA> their info.
 AA> 
 AA> BTW.. even the two echoes above would be good "info" to reach  
 AA> out to the newbie Telegram user.  Often the http:// links to the  
 AA> bbs are in there. A curious user is just a click away from  
 AA> pulling up the website to get the latest news about that bbs.

Unless there are CRs at each line end, where the line wraps shouldn't make a
difference whether you're looking at 40, 80, or 132 column widths for
appearances sake. It should only affect the number of lines on the viewers
side.

In that case, it should be the same for a phone or tablet. the wrap should
adjust to the screen width and not really matter which way it is orientated. 
My situation here us different, in that I am running a PC program in a
terminal window, so the program is reading as though I have an 80 column
screen when in fact I only have 70 columns, and no way to side scroll.

But, it's only a minor inconvienience for me, as my reading isn't too
distracted by it usually, context normally fills in the blanks as it were.

I do realize that some people do prefer the wide screen format though.

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