Formatting
Reel McKoi wrote:
Why is the formatting on so many of my posts messed up? I see one letter
on
a line. Another line will have only one word. It makes them hard to read.
This is probably more information than you want, but I don't know a way to
really simplify...
Outlook Express. You're posting with a content type of "text/plain;
format=flowed". This means that, to help much older news readers, OE
inserts a "soft" carriage return every "N" characters (probably 72, it
might be more). Smart readers then remove those when displaying the
message, and just wrap the line as necessary to fit your window. Any time
you actually insert a carriage return, OE puts in a "hard" return, and no
newsread removes those.
Since even OE should be capable of handling the soft returns it inserted
itself, I'd have to guess that you're not letting it handle the wrapping
when you write, and are manually inserting returns - so just don't :-)
The alternatives would be to look in the OE settings and see if you can
either turn off the "flowed" formatting, or set your line length lower (72
is standard).
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derek
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