--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" <richard@> wrote: > > Xenophaneros Anartaxius: > >> To me, everybody on this this forum looks like text. > > > Well there's text, and then there is plain text. > > > > Do you notice how there is an right angle bracket > > before each sentence Turq posts? He learned that > > from Judy over on Usenet, years ago.
Barry was active on Usenet way before I was. In any case, the brackets are put in by the software (unless one chooses to reformat a quote for easier reading, which both Barry and I do fairly frequently). Others just > > use text wrap and so it looks messy with only one > > right angle bracket. Sometimes, when newbies post > > they don't snip, so the whole thing becomes a > > jumble to look at. > > > > Remember, you're dealing with professional writers > > with Barry and Judy - one does contract work for > > IBM with user manuals and 'Editpad'; the other > > uses 'Word'. But not for FFL posts. > > They've been at this for decades. About 17 years for me. > > So, yes, it's text, but professionally formatted > > for easy reading. Everyone knows that plain text > > with line breaks is the preferred format for > > discussion groups. Go figure. > > It really depends on the system that the text is being > processed through, whether you are responding through > Yahoo's text editor or using the HTML editor, whether you > get the post via email etc. I don't bother with it. > Sometimes I will reformat something so it looks better > after it has passed through many iterations of replies. > > The greater than character (>) is not quite a right angle The term is "right angle-bracket" (as opposed to a left angle-bracket < ), not "right-angle bracket." > and it is generated automatically when replying via Yahoo's > text editor. What Judy and Barry do is manually format the > line breaks so the lines tend to remain unbroken through > several iterations of posts and replys, that is they make > the lines short enough so reformat by the forum software > which makes the lines longer by adding the '>' character > and additional spaces does not result in a new line break. This is correct. > Most do not fuss with this. I do not fuss with it. > > <snip>
