Re: Flow flaws

[Mark Flacy <mflacy1 comcast net>]

On 2006.05.09 14:54, Mişu Moldovan wrote:
> Ma, 09 Mai 2006 la 09:51 -0500, Mark Flacy <mflacy1 comcast net> a
> scris:
>
> > On 2006.05.09 09:01, Mişu Moldovan wrote:
> > >
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > Balsa by default inserts in the messages that it creates at the end
>
> > > of every line an " =20" expression. That seems to be a "hard wrap"
>
> > > that mail clients use it to always wrap lines whenever they bump
> > > into it. However, some clients insert in the mails they generate
> > > just a "soft wrap" consisting only of one "=" which make the mail
>
> > > clients wrap lines more liberally, expanding lines to the entire
> > > width of the available space in the current view. I would also
> > > prefer the "soft wrap", it seems so much better, why isn't it
> > > enabled by default?
> >
> > Well, the "Format=Flowed" declaration in the header resulted in a
> > perfect re-wrap of your e-mail.
> >
> > Of course, when you *do* set "Format=Flowed", you cannot send any
> > preformatted ascii tables or block indented paragraphs.
>
> Sorry if I'm wrong, but I think I was referring to something else.
> Please look at my current reply (composed using Sylpheed). See how the
> lines expand to the right to fill the whole width of the message view?
> You might need to maximize the window to see that. That's what I meant
> by "soft wrap", the mail client uses the whole horizontal space to
> display the message. True for all mail clients I've ever used. The
> replies from Balsa are "hard wrapped", usually leaving some space to
> the right.

OK, this is *very* interesting.  For me to get the above display of  
Mişu's paragraph (Preferences -> Display Options -> Message -> Wrap Text  
at 70), I had to set the "Wrap Outgoing Text at" option to 73.

I'll send another copy to the list with incoming and outgoing set to the  
same wrap length.

It appears that Balsa "forgets" that it had to wrap the paragraph when  
creating the presentation buffer and treats the result as "fixed".


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