[dev] Problem with text formating

[Michael M Slusarz]

This has been in my mailbox forever...

Quoting Didi Rieder <adrieder at sbox.tugraz.at>:

> Hi,
>
> I noticed the following problem with the formating of text sent by IMP (cvs):
>
> If I type a line of text ending with ". \n" (period blank newline), the
> message is formated in a way that the newline is ignored and lines
> following this special line will be moved up to the same line.
>
> eg.
>
> 1 This is a problem test line. 2 This should be on the next line.
> 3 end
>
> Quoted text:
> "1 This is a problem test line. "
> "2 This should be on the next line."
> "3 end"

THis is the correct formatting.  IMP sends text messages in flowed 
format.  Flowed format states that a line with a space padding needs to 
be wrapped with the next line.  There is no way around this except to 
not have spaces after the period.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]