[WikiEN-l] Line length

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 7 Apr 2007 at 23:08, "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> I notice the Gmail one doesn't actually ahhh solve the problem with
> long quotes (there's no "wrap a quote properly") option.

My observation is that if you stick to replying in plain text mode, 
the formatting is proper.  That seems to be true of most webmail 
services; you should stay away from any "rich text editor" they 
provide if you want messages with standards-compliant formatting.

> I'd say the most feasible solution to the stated problem is wrap in
> the list archives.

Rewrapping messages can cause other problems such as messing up 
formatting where the author intended line breaks to stay put where 
they are, as with tables, log dumps, poetry, lyrics, ASCII art, and 
long URLs they want to keep unbroken.

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