[GNC] Reply convention

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 03:28:34PM -0500, R Losey wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 3:37 AM Paul Feakins <paul at antropy.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On 15/07/2023 01:56, R Losey wrote:
> > > Is there really a convention for replies?
> >
> > Indeed there is:
> > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/MailingListEtiquette#Replies
> >
> >
> Thanks for the link; it isn't specific to GnuCash, but that's okay.
> 
> However, it does seem outdated - limiting a line to 72 characters when most
> browsers and email clients are capable of doing line wrap?
> 
Yes, but eyes aren't!  Something around 80 characters (i.e. 72 plus a
bit) is the best line length for our eyes to read.  


> And plain text only?
> 
What else are you going to do?  Anything more is likely to be
differently interpreted by different users' software so the result you
intend is likely to be lost on many users.  There are standard ways of
indicating emphasis and such using just plain text.


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Chris Green