On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:23:59PM +0000, Tony's unattended mail wrote:
> On 2012-11-24, Derek Martin <inva...@pizzashack.org> wrote:
> >
> > But how will the client decide what to monospace, and what not to?
> > There is no discerning factor... in both cases you just have lines
> > of text which are terminated by a newline.
> 
> The number of consecutive newlines distinguishes the two.  Two
> newlines marks the end of a paragraph, and one newline marks the end
> of monospaced text.

Only if the user writes them that way.  I receive a lot of flowed
e-mail at work from certain people, and most of them do not insert the
extra line feed.  And what if your formatted text (say, code) has
extra linefeeds?

It's not enough dude.  Nice try though.

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