On 13/04/15 14:50, Allan Duncan wrote:
On 13/04/15 10:45, Rohan McLeod wrote:
Mark Trickett wrote:
Hello Rohan,
On Sun, 2015-04-12 at 20:51 +1000, Rohan McLeod wrote:
Craig Sanders wrote:
Rohan, just a request but would you mind formatting your paragraphs in a readable manner? Craig ;I will give some thought to your suggestion, but somehow I doubt things will change much. .............snip
I see similar "issues" with your postings as does Craig. I suspect that the effects we see are related to the "editor" component settings. I do not use "Seamonkey", and do not know whether there is an internal editor, or whether you have set up an external editor. I suspect that changing the "window" width while replying may have something to do with what we see. There may also be a setting for where to set word wrap to happen,..............snip
SeaMonkey-email (the editor) is integral to the browser.
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. [...]
I use thunderbird, which I suspect has the same behaviour. As you type, the screen display "soft wraps" around the classic 80 columns, but the outgoing email is sent as long lines. On my screen as I type this it has wrapped "email" to a new line. _This_ has been manually wrapped to a new line, I do this when I want it to stand out from the forgoing text.
Now this is showing to me with a clear line above. When I receive the long line format thunderbird will display it wrapped to 80 columns. I would need to experiment to see what happens to quoted text in replies, I think it does it with smarts to keep it readable.
In the old days whatever the mail agent it was that I was using did automatic hard wrapping (settable, default 72) and was selectable for text and or html output. The hard wrap became a pain when you wanted to edit something and keep a tidy format. More useful would have been to do soft wrap at the composition phase, converting it to hard wrap upon transmission.
Ah-ha! Thunderbird will display long lines wrapped to suit the current display width, and on replying the newly quoted long lines are hard wrapped about 60.