Subj : Desired Living Document (section): Author Compliance
To   : Rob Swindell
From : Kees van Eeten
Date : Mon Apr 15 2019 12:34 pm

Hello Rob!

15 Apr 19 02:45, you wrote to mark lewis:

 RS> @COLS: 132
 RS>   Re: Desired Living Document (section): Author Compliance
 RS>   By: mark lewis to Rob Swindell on Sun Apr 14 2019 09:10 am

 >>
 >>  On 2019 Apr 14 01:32:20, you wrote to me:
 >>
 >>  ON>>> That would make ^aCOLS: 80^m make a little more sence ;)
 >>
 >>  ml>> i don't know... i understand it for what it is intended to be used
 >>  ml>> for but why  do i want to display a message artifically restricted
 >> to
 >>  ml>> 80cols on my 125  character wide terminal?
 >>
 >>  RS> Sorry, but you don't understand the intention of those control line
 >>  RS> then. I'd be happy to discuss it.
 >>
 >> maybe i don't fully understand it, then... why would i or my terminal
 >> care  about the width of the original writer's screen i we're not going
 >> to use that  value on our end some how?

 RS> It has nothing to do with artificially restricting anything. It allows an
 RS> intelligent message viewer (e.g. Synchronet) to re-wrap messages for nice
 RS> display by knowing the difference between a 39 character line of text that
 RS> was: a. that length because of the result of a word-wrapping due to being
 RS> written with a 40 column terminal, or b. that length because the author
 RS> intended for the line to be short (e.g. drawing a table)

 RS> It allows an intelligent viewer to make *more* use of the available
 RS> columns to display messages while retaining the formatting originally
 RS> intended (hopefully) by the message's author.

 Is not that, why Fidonet makes a distict between a hard and a soft return
 0d versus 8d

Kees

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