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       Thread[.post]: 30.2
       TACKER:  agk (Anna)
       SUBJECT: .. Fixed Line Width
       DATE:    13-Oct-22 18:49:07
       HOST:    faeroes
       
       I use ~52 column lines. They display nicely on small/mobile screens, at 
       least in landscape, or on tmux panes dividing slightly larger/tablet 
       screens, so they adapt to modern mobile computing, without being so 
       brutally short that they display nicely on a cellphone in portrait 
       orientation but look awful everywhere else.
       
       I like line breaks on gopher. They anchor me in writing, like new line and 
       carriage return on a typewriter, or linebreaks in handwritten letters, mor 
       more abstractly like a manual transmission connects me to the act of 
       driving. Writing and layout are both done by me, in the act of typing, not 
       by a typesetter interpreting or overriding my markup.
       
       I think it would be interesting to see a gopher client or preprocessor that 
       wrapped long lines, and joined non-blank adjacent lines before wrapping 
       them. That would be nice for typesetting gopher documents for reading, for 
       example, on a cellphone. The default would still be line-breaks as composed 
       by the writer, but sure, you can mangle it for accessibility, with, like, 
       gopher "readability" mode.
       
       
       
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