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Date: Sun 08-Jul-1991 06:20:37 From: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Subject: Re: The revolution... -- Non-NeXT mail ugliness In article <1991Jul08.042116.9503@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: > >In article <27146@beta.gov> enigma@beta.gov (Michael Neuman) writes: >>NeXT system (including when I send it to myself), it's ALWAYS in 128 colums >>(or somewhere right around there.. Maybe 132). Again, that's my point. > >In none of the cases, was the message longer than 80 columns, even though >some of my sentences were over 200 characters. > Although I disagree with just about everything Michael says, there is one thing I agree with him. Many of the mails and news sent out from NeXT are indeed UGLY. And I hope they format it nicely before they send messages out. Although one would like to value contents rather than appearance, ugly formatting of messages from NeXT, for things like press releases, reflects badly on them. And it's hard to read. Mails are formatted to fit within 80 columns all right (contrary to what Michael says), but NeXTmail forces line-wrapping at 72 columns in non-NeXT mail mode. This causes major ugliness when forwarding messages that are already formatted for 80 column widths. If any line is longer than 72 chars, then it just moves a couple of words at the end to a new line. This results in interleaved long line, short line, long line, short line ... sequence which is extremely unsightly. I think NeXT Mail is great, but this must certainly be fixed in future versions. NeXT hardware is beautifully done. NeXT software is even more beautiful. The whole package is affordable and I use it and rely on it everyday for my work. It is sad and ironic that NeXTmaill does beautiful multi-media mail so nicely, but fails to produce readable straight ASCII text. Otherwise, it is a great program, and I use it for nearly all my mails. Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
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