Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:40:47PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Travis Crump (pretzalz@techhouse.org) [020517 09:32]:
> > Flowed just means that 72 character lines are terminated by a soft
> > return instead of a hard return so that when a program like Mutt reads
> > the e-mail it will see the soft return and treat it as a return and so
> > it will get proper wrapping, but if a client like Mozilla receives it,
> > it can remove the soft returns. The point of this is so that the text
>
> What's a soft return? My impression was that a linefeed(\012, or \n)
> marks the end of a line. If you send text without linefeeds in it, it's
> all on one line.
In the format=flowed layout, the "soft return" mentioned above is an
end-of-line preceded by whitespace. It's a reasonably neat extension in
that it's invisible to humans but potentially usable by editors. I'm not
sure what its support among Unix editors is like, though.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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