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   Anton Shepelev to mark lewis   
   Line indents   
   30 Jun 16 22:39:30   
   
   Mark Lewis:   
   AS>> Jam  NNTPD seems to increase all non-zero indents in   
   AS>> a message by  increasing  them  by  one.   This,  at   
   AS>> least,  is  what  I experience.  How do you perceive   
   AS>> this text:   
   ML> these  lines  appear  to  be justified and wrapped at 52   
   ML> characters...   
      
   That's right, by experiment I have found this the most  com-   
   fortable width for me.  Lines longer than 60 characters seem   
   to me too long, in good accord with the "ten words per line"   
   rule from typography.   
      
   ML> that's  "a  bit"  small on this 190 column wide terminal   
   ML> screen :/   
      
   I never let the text take the whole width  of  a  wide-scree   
   monitor.  I don't think that hard-wrapped text shoud ever be   
   allowed to have  more  that  78  characters  per  line,  and   
   "flowed" is not a universally suppoted format.   
      
   If my formating sore annoys people I shall have to reconsid-   
   er it.   
      
   Your super-wide terminal screen must be great for rugue-like   
   and other text-mode but not text-based games.   
      
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