Re: TAN: Line wrapping

John Cowan wrote:

> Sally Caves scripsit:
> >
> > A fellow conlanger has asked me either to set my email to produce
> > a hard carriage return after the seventieth column or to put in hard
> > carriage returns as I am doing now.  I am working in Netscape
> > Communicator, and I don't know how to adjust it to shorten
> > the lines.  When I try to put in hard carriage returns, they don't
> > show up on my mailer.
>
> I use Netscape Communicator.  You just have to get used to putting
> in the returns, as if you were working on a typewriter (email is
> more like typewritten text than word-processed text).
>
I DO put the returns in.  But when I see my post appearing on thelist, the
returns are ignored.  The line still wraps all the way out
beyond where I had put in a carriage return, and where the
returns are, there is no space and two words will be jammed
together.  I checked my mailer preferences, Irina, and Netscape
is supposed to wrap the line after 72 columns.  So I don't really
know how to solve the problem you are having reading my text.

For this note, I've been putting in carriage returns after where it
says "STOP" up at the top of Netscape Communicator, about
four and a half inches worth of typed text.

Maybe the distorted management of my text is something only
I see when I read my public post.  If I don't put the returns in,
I get back a typed message that has long and short lines in
it, as though it can't wrap my own message properly.

Sally