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   Message 494 of 3,070   
   Martin Foster to August Abolins   
   Winpoint: strips CR in paragraphs   
   31 Mar 19 12:46:00   
   
   MSGID: 2:250/1.1@fidonet d6f17fbb   
   REPLY: 2:221/1.58 53a245a5   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.36 (Linux) (x86_64)   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   Hello August!   
      
   On 30.03.19 at 23:03, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:   
      
    AA> //Resending..  I think I played around with the 5D "Uplinks" part too   
    AA> much.//   
      
   Ah, could that explain why all your posts of the 30th were in     
   triplicate :-)   
      
    >>>> Absender = Sender Empfanger = Recipient Betreff = Subject Text = Text in   
    >>>> the message body Empfangen = Received date Erstellt = Created date Flags   
    >>>> = Loads of stuff, which would take 'forever' to document ;)   
      
    AA>>> Hmmm...  Thunderbird maintains the list as is.   
      
    MF>> So does OpenXP.   
      
    AA> I guess the programmer/author never considered that people would ever   
    AA> need ordered lists.   
      
    AA> It looks like he intended to keep each paragraph free-flowing   
      
   I think this is what's known as "format equals flowed" but I may be     
   wrong about that.   
      
    AA> I bet the only way we can keep a list ordered would be to keep   
    AA> each item on its own "paragraph", such as:   
      
    AA> [1] step 1   
      
    AA> [2] step 2   
      
    AA> [3] step 3   
      
    AA> [4] step 4   
      
   That might solve it but .....   
      
    AA> The above should not end up munged when viewing with Winpoint.   
      
   ..... it's not the reader that munges it, it's WinPoint's editor that     
   munges it when Quote-Replying.   
      
   Regards,   
   Martin   
      
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