Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap
On 25/08/12 20:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 20:44 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> On Sb, 25 aug 12, 14:46:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>> After 72 signs my MUA does an automatic line wrap.
>>> When I receive mails from the list and I do reply, sometimes the quotes
>>> are bad. I experienced the same with mails from a friend and he told me
>>> that it takes 78 signs for him.
>>> Is there a standard for how many signs it should take to do an automatic
>>> line wrap?
>> The only thing that might come close to a standard would be this:
>>
>> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt
>>
>> - Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line
>> with a carriage return.
>>
>> but 72 is a common value used by several established editors (like
>> (g)vim).
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Andrei
> I wonder if there's a valid reason to e.g. use 78 characters instead.
> The pen friend using Alpin, does use braille. Perhaps the braille gear
> has got 78 elements. I'll ask him.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
>
IIRC you have to keep room for quotation characters, thus '> ' for one
level.
THen yu get to the historical 80 characters long line.
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