Subj : quotes
To   : Carlos Navarro
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Tue Apr 23 2024 19:20:28

Hello Carlos,

On Tue, Apr 23 2024 19:57:42 +0000, you wrote:

 CN> 09 Apr 2024 18:23, you wrote to me:

 CN> I also did several tests and couldn't find anything that didn't have issues.

Yes, if one issue got better, another one got worse. :)

 NB>> If we were to fix that, we would probably have to get into the quoting
 NB>> and rewrapping part of the code in order to detect
 NB>> initials/smartquotes, remove them while remembering what quote level
 NB>> it was, rewrap the text to be quoted, and re-add the initials with the
 NB>> quote level (probably how Golded does it).

 CN> It might be done in different ways, but yes, I think that the solution
 CN> would be that Smapi/JamNNTPd re-wraps FTN-style quotes to 72 chars or
 CN> less when sending them to the client.

Yeah, then at that point I don't think it matters what the newly written text looks like.

 CN> The alternative would be making clients support Fido-quotes. But this
 CN> seems more difficult... :-)

Yeah right. :D

 CN> BTW, HotdogEd does. You can select NNTP-style (no initials) or FTN-style
 CN> quoting.

So does tin, you can specify the 'quote prefix' to use, and %I is a code for initials, so _%I>_ does the trick. When I use tin I use "smartquote=off". However, I just noticed that when tin actually does fit text to the screen size, it doesn't wrap at word boundaries. So it will wrap right in the middle of a word. Ugh. I don't think there is light at the end of the tunnel any time soon.

Then slrn doesn't have support for initials, but does wrap at word boundaries. So as of right now slrn with "smartquote=on" is looking better and better as far as a console newsreader goes. Neither one really compares to Thunderbird, though. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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