Craig Sanders wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:45:33AM +1000, Rohan McLeod wrote:
How can I put it ?; unconventional layout others unhappy; conventional layout me unhappy; better others unhappy ! fair enough. however, another perspective worth considering is:
the primary purpose of writing something is to communicate. nothing gets communicated if your potential audience aren't willing to put in the effort to actually read what you've written
Yes; well as mentioned that was the second of two issues identified ; perhaps if the the first one is fixed, the second may not arise. To reiterate: "There seem to be two separate issues here 1/ the email is not appearing as I intended it to appear 2/ possibly the way I intend it to appear; is not as some might wish it. So Craig; harking back to your original email: "if your editor is capable of it, you could try piping paragraphs through 'par' to reformat them nicely. it's what i do using mutt & vim " This solution or something like it would probably work perfectly; with a CLI email client like mutt; but for better or worse I'm addicted to GUI. Now the problem is many people are using integrated or stand alone GUI email clients, which seem to do a poor job of preventing email formatting being mangled by transmission. (I have been sending all of my emails on this thread to myself prior to sending them to the list. Some are mangled some are not.) Since it is unlikely all those GUI email users are about to return to CLI; the question arises how to get all those different GUI email clients to produce emails which would appear the same in a CLI one. It occurs to me that a necessary condition may be that a GUI email client should be capable of sending an email to itself without mangling the format ? What will be a sufficient condition ? - transmission seemed to lose line wrap for "through 'par'.." and "CLI; the question...." regards Rohan McLeod