Subj : promotion, nostalgia, the future
To   : August Abolins
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Thu Feb 04 2021 11:56:59

On 04 Feb 2021, August Abolins said the following...
 AA> But that is precisely the case in the newsletter posts and any  
 AA> tabular content.  However, the user should be able to flip their  
 AA> phone to H and get the intended presentation.
 
I would say that's an issue with the editor on either end, or pehaps even
both ends.

  AA>  CP> In that case, it should be the same for a phone or
tablet. the wrap
 AA>  CP> should adjust to the screen width and not really matter
 AA>  CP> which way it is orientated.
 AA> 
 AA> But apparently, there are two ways to post messages with fido  
 AA> editors.  One of them affords "free-flow", auto-adjusts while  
 AA> typing it in and retains the free-flow after posting.  But some  
 AA> editors appear to free-flow (like OpenXP), but when the message  
 AA> is posted there are CRs at the end of those lines.
 AA> 

Have you taken a message that you've written in OpenXP and exported it to a
plain text ASCII program to check that?

 AA> I think that cut-off would drive me crazy.

I don't read word to word, I scan sentences or even paragraphs at a time.  At
least that's what I was told in an analysis during a speed reading course I
took where my reading and comprehension was already above what it promised to
get people to.  So I don't actually need to see all of the words generally.

 AA> Or.. you could always copy the content and paste it into a  
 AA> temporary .doc file and see the whole thing?

That's one solution. or I can reply and as I go through the lines to quote it
shows my the hidden words wrapped.

 AA> Yes.. once the entire message with its fullwidth glory is  
 AA> presented in H mode, the user can flip to V and do a reply that  
 AA> way.

Or they get vertigo from the constant rotation.

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