Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users
* Stefan Claas: > It should be noted that a fixed-width font would not help in this case, > because with my proposal we are talking about a line-length paramter. Making lines shorter to fit a vertical smartphone display? Or wider for horizontal displays? For whatever functional purpose? The key

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users wrote: > * Stefan Claas: > > > I am aware of fixed-with fonts, but modern messengers or social media > > do not use them. > > I deliberately don't use "social" media, nor do I care about it. Also, > if a modern messenger (whatever you may label as such) is not

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users wrote: > * Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users: > > > The reason why I ask, I often see postings on social > > media sites and the output there looks horrible, IMHO. > > Fixed-width fun should do the trick. Besides, the ASCII armor format is > meant to facilitate

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users
* Stefan Claas: > I am aware of fixed-with fonts, but modern messengers or social media > do not use them. I deliberately don't use "social" media, nor do I care about it. Also, if a modern messenger (whatever you may label as such) is not supporting fixed-width fonts, that's the messenger's

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users wrote: > Michał Górny wrote: > > > On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 13:34 -0500, vedaal via Gnupg-users wrote: > > > > > > On 2/26/2020 at 11:27 AM, "Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users" > > > wrote: > > > > > > > I like to make a proposal for future versions of GnuPG, > > > >

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users
* Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users: > The reason why I ask, I often see postings on social > media sites and the output there looks horrible, IMHO. Fixed-width fun should do the trick. Besides, the ASCII armor format is meant to facilitate transporting key data in email, not to look pretty.

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Michał Górny via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 13:34 -0500, vedaal via Gnupg-users wrote: > > On 2/26/2020 at 11:27 AM, "Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users" > wrote: > > > I like to make a proposal for future versions of GnuPG, > > where a user can change the line witdh of ASCII armor > > output. > > = > > It would

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread vedaal via Gnupg-users
On 2/26/2020 at 2:03 PM, "Michał Górny" wrote: > >Why 'change it back'? Unless I'm mistaken, GPG shouldn't have any >real >problem with a different base64 width, as long as the overall >layout is >preserved. I've just did a quick test and GPG is entirely happy >with >the result after

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 13:34 -0500, vedaal via Gnupg-users wrote: > > > > On 2/26/2020 at 11:27 AM, "Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users" > > wrote: > > > > > I like to make a proposal for future versions of GnuPG, > > > where a user can change the line witdh of ASCII armor > > >

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: > > > On 2/26/2020 at 11:27 AM, "Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users" > wrote: > > >I like to make a proposal for future versions of GnuPG, > >where a user can change the line witdh of ASCII armor > >output. > > = > > It would not be compatible with older versions.

Re: Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread vedaal via Gnupg-users
On 2/26/2020 at 11:27 AM, "Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users" wrote: >I like to make a proposal for future versions of GnuPG, >where a user can change the line witdh of ASCII armor >output. = It would not be compatible with older versions. The simplest thing for you, (or any users who

Proposal - variable line width for ASCII armor output

2020-02-26 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
Hi Werner, I like to make a proposal for future versions of GnuPG, where a user can change the line witdh of ASCII armor output. The reason why I ask, I often see postings on social media sites and the output there looks horrible, IMHO. For myself, I would like to have this feature when also