Subj : Desired Living Document (section): Author Compliance
To : Kees van Eeten
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Mon Apr 15 2019 03:49 am
Re: Desired Living Document (section): Author Compliance
By: Kees van Eeten to Rob Swindell on Mon Apr 15 2019 12:34 pm
> Hello Rob!
>
> 15 Apr 19 02:45, you wrote to mark lewis:
>
> RS> @COLS: 132
> RS> Re: Desired Living Document (section): Author Compliance
> RS> By: mark lewis to Rob Swindell on Sun Apr 14 2019 09:10 am
>
> >>
> >> On 2019 Apr 14 01:32:20, you wrote to me:
> >>
> >> ON>>> That would make ^aCOLS: 80^m make a little more sence ;)
> >>
> >> ml>> i don't know... i understand it for what it is intended to be used
> >> ml>> for but why do i want to display a message artifically restricted
> >> to
> >> ml>> 80cols on my 125 character wide terminal?
> >>
> >> RS> Sorry, but you don't understand the intention of those control line
> >> RS> then. I'd be happy to discuss it.
> >>
> >> maybe i don't fully understand it, then... why would i or my terminal
> >> care about the width of the original writer's screen i we're not going
> >> to use that value on our end some how?
>
> RS> It has nothing to do with artificially restricting anything. It allows an intelligent message viewer (e.g. Synchronet) t
> RS> re-wrap messages for nice display by knowing the difference between a 39 character line of text that was: a. that length
> RS> because of the result of a word-wrapping due to being written with a 40 column terminal, or b. that length because the
> RS> author intended for the line to be short (e.g. drawing a table)
>
> RS> It allows an intelligent viewer to make *more* use of the available columns to display messages while retaining the
> RS> formatting originally intended (hopefully) by the message's author.
>
> Is not that, why Fidonet makes a distict between a hard and a soft return
> 0d versus 8d
That's a good question. I haven't see any BBS message editors that insert a so-called "soft CR" and FTS-1 says they (character
0x8d) should be ignored when importing packets, so that whole concept just seems to be an anachronism. Does anyone actuall
send/receive "soft CRs"?