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to: Nicholas Boel
from: August Abolins
date: 2024-04-18 20:43:00
subject: openxp chrs

Hello Nicholas!

 AA>> Ah.. correct.. there is no free-flow option in OpenXP's
 AA>> editor. There just seems to be a hard max and min range
 AA>> to choose from.

 NB> Yet somehow you're bypassing that min and max if you are
 NB> able to see a full screen width >80 characters?

No.. there is no width limit in the "viewer".  The limits  
pertain to the "editor".

As soon as I would commence a reply to any full-width/free-flow  
message using the internal editor, the limits configured in  
OpenXP will take effect.


 AA>> Personally, I like shorter width lines.  This one is
 AA>> going out set to a max of 63 chars.  Meanwhile *some*
 AA>> kind of limit is necessary for quoted text otherwise
 AA>> there wouldn't be much room for adding the QQ>> QQ> etc
 AA>> pre-text.

 NB> Yes, agreed. Some kind of limit is necessary for *quoted*
 NB> text, but I don't think it is necessary for unquoted text
 NB> when that text usually gets reflowed when quoted anyways.
 NB> ;)

I like OpenXP's manual reflow feature. It helps to keep  
paragraphs neat and even for the end of each line.  But it  
would be nice to have the option to mark a paragraph and have  
it "free-flow" going out.  Instead, OpenXP always adds a   
at the end of each line set to the width that you specify up to  
the max allowed.

-- 
  ../|ug

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