On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:00:54 -0700, Nick Andriash wrote:
A couple technical clarifications there Nick, if you don't mind.
:-)
NA> Unless I am misunderstanding you, I don't see the need to invoke PGP's
NA> word wrapping at all. Disengage it altogether when using TB!
Agreed. PGP's wrapping doesn't need to be active when using TB!
since TB! does not wrap on sending messages.
NA> With the use of fixed-width fonts, the Editor basically becomes
NA> WYSIWYG... so you do not want PGP to re-wrap your message at all.
It's not the fact that TB! uses fixed width fonts that makes it
WYSIWYG. It's just that when TB! auto-wraps while you're editing and
reflows text in the various ways it does, it uses hard returns instead
of soft returns. Also, it never uses soft returns. Most specialist
editors will provide the user a choice between wrapping modes, ie,
whether hard or soft returns are used.
Because TB!'s editor wraps using hard returns, doesn't do soft
returns and TB! doesn't wrap on sending, you see the exact formatting
the recipient will receive *before* you send. TB! will therefore not
interfere with the formatting of PGP signatures, provided the user
doesn't deliberately reflow the PGP signature.
NA> Remember that if you invoke PGP's word wrap, that PGP will wrap
NA> first, followed by TB!, increasing the chances of breaking your PGP
NA> signature.
TB! doesn't wrap upon sending. Because of this TB! users run the
risk of PGP messing up the message text formatting. It did this to me a
couple times and since then I've disabled PGP's text reflowing.
PGP's wrapping facility is provided for those clients that
reflow text upon sending which happens to comprise most clients out
there including OE, Outlook, Eudora, Calypso among others. If one of
these clients is set up to reflow text at a column number less than PGP,
the clients reflow engine will reflow the PGP signature rendering it
invalid. This is why for those clients, their text reflow setting should
be higher than PGP's. If you use a similar set up with TB!, the message
body text will be reflowed rather horribly.
PS// When I say reflow I mean rewrap.
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