Kent Watsen <kwat...@juniper.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> > one quick comment; the header used in the examples in
> > section 8 isn't equal to the header defined in section 5.1
> 
> 
> This is intentional.  Section 5.1 says:
> 
>    The first line is the following 46-character string that MAY be
>    surrounded by any number of printable characters.

Ok.

> The rationalization here is:
> 
>   - scripts can easily center the text with equal amounts of some
>     chosen character.  The script in the Appendix, which was used
>     to fold examples 8.1 thru 8.4, uses '=' characters.
> 
>   - manual folding is difficult to center, and hence other framing
>     is more suitable.  For instance, the example in Section 8.5.

Ok, but what's the point?  Why not use a fixed header?  IMO it might
also improve readability by have a common well-known header.


/martin

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