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Re: [RFR] templates://uw-imap/{ipopd.templates,uw-imapd.templates}



> >>> +  - mailutil: utility program which helps manage email mailboxes (both
> >>> +              local and IMAP/POP3/NNTP);
> >>> +  - dmail:    MDA (Mail Delivery Agent) for use with procmail;
> >>> +  - tmail:    MDA for use with the system mailer (e.g. sendmail, postfix,
> >>> +              etc.).
> >>>   .
> >>>    Homepage: http://www.washington.edu/imap/
> >>>
> >>> We standardized that method for bulletting. Also indent things
> >>> better. Leading articles removed.
> >> Is that indentation standardized too? Would you happen to know where I
> >> can read more about these new standards?
> > 
> > 
> > Standardized, no. This is a policy we adopted over time. We use the
> > same policy in the French team for a while with quite some success.
> 
> My concern here was autowrapping too. Indentation in the middle of a
> line would look, well, stupid.

This is why these lines are prepended by double spaces, indeed. Just
like the original ones were.


> 
> Is it promoted somewhere as good practice, or do you know for a fact
> with those othr french templates that it works well with varying frontends?


Usually, when hard-formatting is enforced with double spaces, there
are no real problems as long as ppl respect a maximum line length of
74 chars (more precisely columns as some languages use double-width
characters).

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