Norm wrote: > Ken Hornstein <k...@pobox.com> writes: > >Hope it didn't come across like I was picking on you ... you > >had explained (from what I remember) that a correspondent of > >yours complained that your emails looked "funny", so you > >eventually settled on just making your paragraphs one long > >line.
Note that lines longer than 998 characters are not allowed. > >(It does occur to me, however, that if you set automimeproc > >to 1 in your mh_profile then all of your emails would be > >encoded as q-p and they should show up properly for > >everyone). > > Rather than risk irreversible injury to my 81 year old brain, > trying to understand what q-p means and what buildmimeproc > does, I will revert. q-p is "quoted-printable", an encoding scheme for text. Encoded q-p text is more or less readable, but it can interfere with quick grepping of messages because it works by introducing additional characters. For that reason, I don't use automimeproc. (And printable ASCII characters don't need to be encoded.) > But there is a small problem. My standard editor width is not 78 > columns, but 80 columns. So I will have to introduce an option into > my editor to make the window width 78 columns (actually, I'll make > it 77 columns to have a bit of slop). I wonder what I should name > that option. Said differently where and how did you get that > number,78 columns? I suppose it's some kind of standard? Well, the 78 character limit is a "SHOULD" rather than a "MUST". It's in sec. 2.1.1 of RFC 5322 (and 2822), which begins: There are two limits that this standard places on the number of characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding the CRLF. David _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
