[GNC] Reply convention

[R Losey]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 5:05 AM Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> 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 However, it does seem outdated - limiting a line to 72 characters when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.
>
>
This doesn't appear to be plain text... perhaps I'm associating plain text
with fixed-width fonts.
But if this works, that's fine.

Regarding line length, I thought you could set your browser or email client
to wrap at whatever length one wishes.


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Richard Losey
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