Re: ALL: Please format to 70 positions or less.

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>
> > Date:         Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:09:51 -0400
> > From: John Cowan <cowan@...>
>
> > Or better yet, discipline yourselves to use *manual* hard
> > linebreaks. Pretend it's a typewriter. Really. Pretend.
>
> You mean I should cancel the letter and rewrite from scratch if I
> discover that I forgot a word so the paragraph should be reflowed? I
> think I'll abstain.
>
> That aside, I sometimes wish Emacs had a 'fill-paragraph-from-point',
> so I could fix little nits like the abandoned sentence-starting "I" in
> the previous paragraph. On the other hand, it now has automatic
> detection of common line prefixes, so it does the right thing when I
> reformat a quoted paragraph.
>
> Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)
Betterer yet, use quasi-poetic line breaks
at convenient periods or commas or pauses.
Then it looks more like speech sounds.
Don't shoot me, please.