Subj : space oddity (fixes)
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Sun Apr 21 2024 12:53:40

Hello Nicholas,

On Sun, Apr 21 2024 17:29:28 +0000, you wrote:

 NB>> Just wondering if HotdogEd is defaulted to wrapping at 79 characters,
 NB>> but on a phone turned vertical you don't actually have that many
 NB>> characters. Have you tried HotdogEd on a tablet or something with a
 NB>> bigger screen?

Replying to this message as a test. Keep in mind the message I'm replying to was done with TB and flowed=on. Everything here looks ok in slrn and nano using flowed=off.

 NB> Here I resized the window to under 80 characters. Notice the newly
 NB> written text is still flowed to fit the screen, however the quoted text
 NB> looks much like your HotdogEd screenshots. Quoted text beginning with
 NB> any kind of quote character (including initials) can not be reflowed
 NB> without actually removing the quote characters first. I don't think
 NB> jam/smapinntpd does this.

I'm guessing the spaces at the end of the above quoted lines have been removed, now that I'm using flowed=off.

 NB> Is it only quoted text that looks bad in HotdogEd?

 NB> Does newly written text display flowed to the size of the screen in HotdogEd?

The line above is now 79 characters with the addition of the single quote character and space. The last word (or words) will most likely be wrapped to the next line without a quote character when the initials are added - when viewed in flowed=off and/or in an 80 character wide terminal/client.

Either way, I don't think the issues are specific to HotdogEd, except the fact that HotdogEd adds another wrench into the mix by only being ~58 characters wide. So this is noticable much more often. :(

Regards,
Nick

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