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|    Alexander Koryagin to Ardith Hinton    |
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|    08 Aug 21 14:44:50    |
      MSGID: 2:221/6.0 610fc3b2       REPLY: 1:153/716.0 10ec3ac2       PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 1.3 20210704       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TZUTC: 0300       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2021-08-03              Hi, Ardith Hinton! -> Alexander Koryagin       I read your message from 07.08.2021 13:34               AK>> I thought for a long time what had you meant by "double space at        AK>> the end of a sentence" because my qouter removes double spaces.               AH> I had suspected as much. In Fidonet we don't always know what other        AH> people's software will do until we see it happen. But your idea of        AH> posting an excerpt seems to work quite well if you want to keep the        AH> original spacing.               AH> If you &/or your quoter prefer not to use the double space, I        AH> accept that when the results are consistent...              It is the specifics of my quoter. My quoter can format the text to a       formatted form with an aligned right margin, and in this case additional       spaces are OK. Vice versa it removes additional spaces and line returns       when I want long line paragraphs.               AH> as they are in this example. But from my POV it's annoying when my        AH> software will accept a double space in the middle of a line but try        AH> to correct it if I use it near the end of a line. No matter how I        AH> adjust the settings, it has its own ideas about line wrapping...        AH> (sigh).              I remember you like to write your messages in the formatted form with       the aligned right margin. It means the text alignment is turned on in       your editor. In this case your editor can itself add/remove additional       spaces for the text alignment, to more exact in those places it found       proper. You can try to switch off the text alignment in the editor       settings. After this procedure your text spaces will be unchanged by the       editor itself.              Bye, Ardith!       Alexander Koryagin       english_tutor 2021       ---         * Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/0 30/0 90/1 103/705 105/81 120/340 123/131 129/305       SEEN-BY: 154/10 218/700 221/1 6 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 424 426       SEEN-BY: 229/700 1016 1017 240/1120 5832 249/206 317 261/38 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 301/0 1 101 113 317/3 322/757 335/364 342/200 460/58 712/848       SEEN-BY: 920/1 4500/1 5020/1042 5058/104       PATH: 221/6 301/1 229/426           |
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