Wrapping phlog posts at 70 characters | |
Saturday Apr 20 12:43:23 2019 | |
I use lynx as gopher client. When sdf/eu had bucktooth as gopher | |
server I could read texts even if they had lines 80 characters long | |
So I didn't really care if my text editor aligned 70 or 80 chars. I | |
used one or the other quite carelessly even though some people had | |
complained they couldn't properly read some or my phlog posts. | |
Well, now since we have gophernicus, not even I can read some of my | |
posts with 80 chars per line. Therefore this is a situation I have | |
change. | |
I started last night wrapping text correctly for gophernicus using | |
'fold' like this: | |
$ fold -w 70 -s gophermap | |
"w" stands for width and "s" makes text break at spaces and not cut | |
words. | |
This works really great, but it sometimes breaks the layout of some | |
posts so I have to manually revise and tweak them. Not a big deal, | |
just a reminder that you have to do things well from the start: "Al | |
well that begins well" ;) | |
From now on I have: set fill 70 in my .nanorc | |
On a side note, gophernicus seems reluctant to show text that is | |
prepended with some signs like #, * or - so I have to indent some | |
lines to make it work. |