Re: [Evolution] composer line length

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> Oops, I think I better sign up for "counting 101" :-)
> You are correct it is 71. 
>
> I stil have 2 problems with this though:
>
> 1. what if I need to get something out that has more characters
>    on a line than 72, I do think this lenght should be a preference.

Well, if you want text/plain and longer lines, select "Preformat" as
paragraph style.

HTML mail will expand to the limits of the window -- but maybe depends
on the MUA. ;)


> 2. as soon as I start using my own fonts, it is not 72 anymore but
>    more like 39 which is totally unacceptable.

I'm not entirely sure on this. But "using your own font" feels like it
will only make sense for HTML mail. ;)

If you use a custom font, just for viewing pleasure while typing, the
font will be wrapped on the window edges. Sending the mail *will* set
the line length to 72.

As you probably have seen by your first mail, which apparently had
*more* than your mentioned 36 chars:

> 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890
>                   1                 2                   3             a 
> b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z a

You even can see, that you used a non-monospaced font, which is not the
best option when typing text/plain mails.

...guenther


-- 
char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0  ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
(c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}