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   Message 463 of 3,070   
   mark lewis to August Abolins   
   Winpoint: Extras/Options/General, Allgem   
   29 Mar 19 23:40:27   
   
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     Re: Winpoint: Extras/Options/General, Allgemeines, "Andern"...   
     By: August Abolins to mark lewis on Fri Mar 29 2019 21:30:14   
      
    AA>>> I don't like the way Winpoint rearranges the text from the   
    AA>>> original.   
      
    ML>> it should only be doing that when you quote... not when the   
    ML>> message is being displayed for reading...   
      
    AA> Yeah.  Bummer.  I wonder what the thought process to do that   
    AA> came from.   
      
   it came frm a desire to have good looking quotes instead of chopped off lines   
   or crappy wrapped lines with no reflow which gave us what was known as chainsaw   
   quotes...   
      
   if you put a blank line between each line, they won't be wrapped together...   
      
   TimED has/had the capability of wrapping a message and leaving certain lines   
   along... lines like tables and charts... the block of the table or chart was   
   started and terminated by two tildes on their own lines or each line was   
   prefixed by a tilde... the tildes were removed and each line had a hard CR   
   placed at the end of the line... since paragraphs only have a CR at the end of   
   the paragraph, this worked quite well...   
      
   i think you have already mentioned that winpoint strips the hard CRs at the end   
   of the lines and forces them to be wrapped... maybe there's a setting for that   
   in the config? if not, it is another design flaw...   
      
      
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