"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote in message
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"Kate" wrote in message
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[X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original]
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Interestingly, my quoted post is showing as in the original in all
of
your replies, with a slight hiccup in Robert`s.

Whatever it is you're seeing was probably just me editing
to reformat where I inserted a comment. ; )

However, now that I
am replying, my quoted first post has failed to wrap properly -
possibly to do with the in front of the lines, as Michael
mentioned?

All of your lines are terminated without a trailing space
which suggests that you are doing your own formatting
which defeats the Format=Flowed feature you are using.
Essentially, each of your lines is treated as a paragraph;
so if someone else wants to quote it and their linesize
is smaller than yours (or the quote characters cause your
lines to grow bigger than theirs) each of your lines have to be
written as two lines, independently of any other of your lines
being quoted.

I see from Tools/Options/Send that my posts are set in
MIME format, with no encoding, but have now changed to Uuencode to
see if that makes a difference. It is only a very minor thing, I
know, but has been niggling me for a long time.

If you don't mind the arbitrary chopping of your sentences
into lines by your linesize try to get into the habit of writing
paragraphs. Then your sentences will be chopped into lines
with a trailing space, so then when someone who is using
Format=Flowed quotes you, your paragraphs (or sets of lines
from one) can also be reformatted (once the quoter saves or posts.)

And BTW if you ever have to start re-editing a message
from Drafts or the Outbox you may still have to open your
composition window maximized and reflow the paragraph.
(I'm not sure how well Format=Flowed recovers from that
though. I suppose it would be nice not to have to worry
about line size after restarting from Drafts. Certainly without
Format=Flowed you do have to have that concern or risk
the embarrassment of posting malformed paragraphs.


Good luck

Robert
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When I type a post, I let the computer "carriage return"
automatically* and I thought that I did paragraph properly. However,
I have just noticed that my compose window was not fully-maximised -
stretched to almost fill the screen, but not maximised. Maybe that
hasn`t helped, although it can only be two or three characters short.
Also, I see that when I compose or reply to a post, the default font
for Plain Text in NGs seems to be Times New Roman. But, if I select
Read All Message in Plain Text, they come up in 9pt Arial, which is
the default font for Mail and News in Tools/Options/Compose. Would
that make a difference?

I have looked in Tools/Options in the main Menu, and also under Format
in the compose window, but cannot find a check box for Format=Flowed.
Could you tell me where to find it, please?

Anyway, I have now reduced my line length to 70 characters, maximised
the compose Window, and selected Uuencode. If that doesn`t work,
well, I give up!

Thank you for all the info
Kate

*I used to be a secretary in ye olden days when you had to wait for
the `ting` when the typewriter carriage reached the righthand margin
and then slam the carriage back. Such bliss not to have to do that
with a computer,especially when it was a long carriage that would take
brief size paper :-)