Subj : space oddity (fixes)
To   : Tommi Koivula
From : Carlos Navarro
Date : Sun Apr 21 2024 21:03:18

21 Apr 2024 07:40, you wrote to me:

 CN>> If you want to experiment, you can get a similar result if you set
 CN>> WRAP_WIDTH to 997. Only paragraphs longer than that will be
 CN>> wrapped.

 TK> This is exactly what I did once in the past. :) The combination of
 TK> WRAP_WIDTH 997 and FLOWED OFF was a pretty good choice.

 CN>> It works (in fact, other NNTP servers do that), but there are
 CN>> issues with some newsreaders, e.g. Thunderbird. A quoted paragraph
 CN>> is not wrapped, so it becomes a long line prefixed by just one
 CN>> ">". This doesn't work well with all FTN/BBS software. (See my
 CN>> "long line test" thread in FIDOTEST.)

 TK> Yes. It needs a little manual works.

I've tested this again, and it seems that TB displays and quotes long lines and long quotes properly with flowed=on. Maybe I did my previous tests with flowed=off, not sure. I'll need to test more...

Carlos

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