Re: RFC 2646 format=flowed

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

>  On Tue, 25 September 12:08 Toralf Lund wrote:
>  > On 2001.09.23 17:06 Peter Bloomfield wrote:
>  > >I've just posted a new patch for recognizing text of type
>  > >`format=flowed', as defined by RFC 2646, as an enhancement on
>  Bugzilla:
>  > >
>  > >http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60997
>  > >
>  > >Please note that this patch requires current cvs, including 
>Albrecht's
>   > >forwarding patch, and conflicts with earlier source trees, including
>  > >1.2.0.
>  >
>  > It disappoints me a bit that the RFC fails to address some issues
>  related
>  > to flowed texts, like paragraph indentation. Comments?
>   RFC 2646 has a very narrow scope which is specifying a format to
>  differentiate
>  soft and hard line breaks in a text/plain document.  The actual
>  formatting of
>  paragraphs and how to indent them are application issues and do not
>  affect
>  interoperability.  An application is free to deal with this as it sees
>  fit.
This means that if you want special indentation on a block of text, the 
paragraphs can no longer be flowed, and the text may look all wrong at the 
receiving end. Too bad, really.

Anyhow, I still think the Balsa should do something in the direction of 
supporting indented blocks, and also bulleted/numbered lists. Actually, 
this functionality is the only thing I really miss in the message editor, 
after switching from an MUA with HTML support.

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- Toralf