Because some gopher clients won't wrap single lines to a console dis
play (looking at you, most http proxies), I'm enforcing 68 character
s, which the request for comments mentions for compatibility reasons
Automatically hyphenating lines and skipping some spaces turned ou
t to be a little tricky, so in the interest of brevity I skipped han
dling those for now; the function simply becomes too onerous and con
fusing. I put the function I'm using in my new common lisp subfolder
of this gopherhole.
If I did want to do that, it seems like I should inspect the last tw
o characters of the line being printed and the first character of th
e next line. If a word would wrap, insert a hyphen, pushing the last
character onto the new line. But don't do that if the 68th characte
r ended a word. If the +1th character was a space, skip it. I wrote
a solution using two counters and a loop housing a cond, but it was
too confusing. Further, I can't recover the unhyphenated text, thoug
h maybe I wouldn't want to.
