From: Rik F. <fa...@di...> - 2001-05-14 14:59:52
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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. |