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From: "alexander koryagin" <koryagin@erec.ru>

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Hi, Ardith Hinton! How are you?
on Tuesday, 24 of April, I read your message to alexander koryagin
about "Program Quoter - you are very welcomed"

 ak>> But I strongly doubt that you always make your windows so  wide  to  be
 ak>> able to write 120 symbol lines.

 AH> Maybe he can,  if he is using a GUI interface  and/or  he  has  a  wider
 AH> screen than you & I do and/or he has 25-year-old eyes.... ;-)

 AH> I also tend to make a  clear  distinction  between  reading  &  writing,
 AH> however.  Just for fun I typed a series of periods here to see if  there
 AH> was a limit to how many characters I could type on a single line. At 294
 AH> I figured there was no point  in  proceeding  any  further,  because  in
 AH> actual practice I am using words & I would have been feeling quite  lost
 AH> shortly after whatever I'd just  written  began  to  disappear  off  the
 AH> screen to my left.  Once I'd saved my experiment timEd organized it this
 AH> way:


 AH> _ _ O / _ C_U_T_ H_E_R_E_ _ _ _
      O \
<skipped>

Probably some people say to you that you need to switch  your  editor  to  so
called wrapped mode.  In this mode you write  your  sentences  without  using
Enter key and your lines are wrapped automatically.  They  are  wrapped  only
_visually_, and in reality you write long line paragraphs.

 AH> IOW,  the author of timEd seems to agree with you & with the  publishers
 AH> of the non-reference book which came closest to hand in our household as
 AH> to the line length we can reasonably expect other adults to take in.

Besides,  there are a great lot of text MSDOS documents which  are  formatted
and justified.  Surely every fidonet user must have the possibility  to  post
such documents as they are,  i.e.  in the formatted form.  And  it  is  quite
logical to demand that every fidonet user must have the possibility  to  read
them properly.

The only problem is to decide what to do when a person  wants  to  quote  the
formatted text.  There are two ways:  the simple one is when a person  simply
adds quoting symbols on(?) the left of the text, but this way makes the lines
longer.  The cooler way is when he adds quoting marks and then reformats  the
quoted paragraphs to prevent them from being excessively wide.

[...LIZA:  I dont want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.]
Bye Ardith!
Alexander (yAlexKo[]yandex.ru) + 2:5020/2140.91
fido7.english-tutor 2012 



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