> Eric Weir schrieb am 17.01.2012 um 05:59 (-0500):
>> On Jan 16, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Michael Ludwig wrote:
>>> Eric Weir schrieb am 16.01.2012 um 18:36 (-0500):
>>>>
>>>> Still not quite clear about the concept of "flowing" and "reflowed"
>>>> text. The way Tim put it makes it sound like all paragraphs, not
>>>> just each paragraph, on one line.
>
> Tradition of typing text into terminals: 72 or 76 or 78 characters
> (colums) per line. Because 80 columsn was the width of the terminal
> and some columns were needed for line numbering.
>
> Flowing text: refers to text as long as it gets on one line, without
> any regard for the old terminal width limit.
>
> Just two different styles of writing text. Can both be observed on
> mailing lists etc.
Thanks, Michael. My intuitions--as they started to develop after this discussion got started, not the ones I started with--seem to be along the right path. What you describe is pretty much what I was guessing was being discussed.
Regards,
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
eeweir@bellsouth.net
"Imagining the other is a powerful antidote to fanaticism and hatred."
- Amos Oz
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