format=flowed issues [Was: gawk 4.1.4: CR separate char for CRLF files]

David Macek david.macek.0@gmail.com
Fri Aug 11 07:15:00 GMT 2017


On 11. 8. 2017 1:59, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 16:48:47, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> Many archives and sites display lines off the right margin instead of allowing
>> them to wrap as normal in HTML. Possibly using pre format style without
>> horizontal scrollbars instead of just specifying a monospace font style. That
>> makes it a site or converter design issue!
> 
> Nope. Wrong. David has been doing this for over 2 years:
> 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-01/msg00232.html
> 
> So it is a user issue. The user must hard wrap because Cygwin site does not.

"""
Nope. Wrong. Cygwin site has been doing this for over 2 years:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-01/msg00232.html

So it is a site issue. The site must wrap because David does not.
"""

In other words, why do you think your argument is correct?  Format=flowed is
not a new thing<https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt> and it would be nice
if the archives site could display it correctly.  I can cooperate on this
with the maintainer(s) if they're interested.  Essentially, one line of CSS
should fix it, judging by my quick test.

-- 
David Macek

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