M wrote regarding 'Re: [OT] Paragraph Formatting;?was "How to read Battery voltage with PIC"' on Tue, Nov 15 at 16:42:
> Danny Sauer wrote:
> >presentation, not communication - if color and fonts are required, the
> >communicating is being done incorrectly).
> 
> That's a pretty major generalization. :)

One of the few cases where one's accurate. ;)

> >Looking at the quoted text above, most mailiers will see that there's
> >a '>' inserted at the beginning of the line.  Since the lines aren't
> >wrapped, though, someone (like me) on an 80-char terminal sees one
> >quoted line and 1-3 unquoted lines, making it difficult to read
[...]
> 
> I also see > when using a text reader, and my email reader of choice 
> (emacs :) will re-wrap lines nicely.  I would really have to say that 
> any email reader, text or graphical, that cannot re-wrap for 
> presentation is broken.  After all, if your reader isn't doing something 
> that trivial, it isn't allowing you to communicate correctly :)

Yeah, but even that bloated pig :) of an editor/mail reader doesn't put
in the leading > on wrapped lines, does it?  That was my point - mutt
wraps lines, too, but it doesn't put the extra >'s in place and I've
not seen a reader that does.

--Danny
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