Re: [dict-beta] Wrapping

[Rik F. <fa...@di...>]

On Mon 14 May 2001 11:06:56 -0400,
   Bret Martin <ba...@di...> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2001 10:54:55 EDT Rik Faith wrote:
> > The bottom line is that you can't expect the client to wrap for you
> > unless you provide enough formatting information such that the client
> > can wrap correctly.
> 
> Aren't newlines sufficient to specify where things are pre-formatted 
> vs. what should be wrapped?

Yes, assuming we leave indented lines alone.

(My statement assumed that the client could fill as well as wrap, but I
see now that that was a poor assumption in the context of this
discussion.  If all the client does it wrap, then newlines do provide a
great deal of formatting information.  The flip-side of the problem them
becomes figuring out when newlines can be removed from the input text --
this can be difficult.)

> The main problem I see with doing things this way is that it is not 
> what our existing client base expects.

Right.  We'd have to add this as an optional format that the client
could request.