Re: Fwd: Re: wrap problem [albrecht.dress@arcormail.de]

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On Mon, 30 July 11:36 Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> 
> Am 30.07.2001 11:36:29 schrieb(en) Pawel Salek: 
> > Well, I just happen to be born in Poland and live in Sweden; Norway is
> > quite similar in this respect. I know that these few countries are not
> > entire world but I think together with emacs and LaTex conventions, it
> > is founded to call the "empty-line" convention "the traditional way". 
> 
> Born in Germany, and live there... I, too, use the empty line to separate
> paragraphs, but this might also be an influence from too much (is that
> possible ;-)) LaTeX. 
> 
> > And there is always a place for more than one tradition, I think.
> 
> So, why don't we implement the checkbutton "separate paragraphs by empty line"
> as I suggested yesterday? This does not fix anybody to the empty line
> tradition, but for the people using it, it makes life a lot easier.
> 
> For the other tradition (as I do not see the concept of soft breaks coming
> with gtk 2.0, so we had to implement it ourselves, which for sure is a *huge*
> amount of work!), we could change the menu item "reflow paragraph" to "reflow
> selection" or something like that in this case. Then the user has to select
> the region he/she wants to reflow, and in this area all \n's are interpreted
> as linebreaks, not as paragraph separators.
> 
> Opinions?
> 
> Cheers, Albrecht.

Feature request; when writing out the message from a wrapped-by-paragraph
text widget, use the text/plain format parameter and line ending convention
described in RFC 2646.  It has much that may be of use here.

Brian Stafford