TECHNICAL: Problems with linewrap

Felix Lee has pointed out that my recent reposts ( particularly 
Chevalier material ) are causing problems with line wrapping - 
suggesting that the line lengths are excessive.

I have checked a faulty section of "The Lion and the Mosquito" and 
discovered that the linewrap in the message I uploaded was at column 
79. I would not have expected this to give linewrap problems in the 
posted message :-(

As a test I have reduced the linewrap to column 77. If this still 
causes trouble I will be puzzled !

In my own postings I use a Right Margin setting of 68 to allow for 
quote marks etc. Actually 68 RM is the Wordstar default setting for 
Wordstar document files.

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This section line wraps at column 79 ( my original posting which 
gave trouble ):

        @|\@@        "Why should I? demanded the mosquito. "You're king of
the
       -  @@@@       jungle, not of the air! I'll fly wherever I want and
land
      /7   @@@@      wherever I please."  And so saying, he tickled the
lion's
     /    @@@@@@                  ear. In the hope of crushing the insect,
the
     \-' @@@@@@@@`-______________    lion boxed his own ears, but the
mosquito
      -@@@@@@@@@             /   \       slipped away from the now dazed
lion.
        @/@@@@              /     \
 _______/    /_       _____|       |__________-
/,__________/  `-.___/,_____________----------_)

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In this section I have reduced linewrap to 77:

        @|\@@      "Why should I? demanded the mosquito. "You're king of the
       -  @@@@     jungle, not of the air! I'll fly wherever I want and land
      /7   @@@@    wherever I please."  And so saying, he tickled the lion's
     /    @@@@@@                ear. In the hope of crushing the insect, the
     \-' @@@@@@@@`-______________  lion boxed his own ears, but the mosquito
      -@@@@@@@@@             /   \     slipped away from the now dazed lion.
        @/@@@@              /     \
 _______/    /_       _____|       |__________-
/,__________/  `-.___/,_____________----------_)

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If anyone has the technical knowledge and advice on how to avoid 
these linewrap problems on Internet - please speak up !

Bye,

In article <Col...@equinox.gen.nz>,
Colin Douthwaite <Col...@equinox.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>Felix Lee has pointed out that my recent reposts ( particularly 
>Chevalier material ) are causing problems with line wrapping - 
>suggesting that the line lengths are excessive.
>
>I have checked a faulty section of "The Lion and the Mosquito" and 
>discovered that the linewrap in the message I uploaded was at column 
>79. I would not have expected this to give linewrap problems in the 
>posted message :-(
>
>As a test I have reduced the linewrap to column 77. If this still 
>causes trouble I will be puzzled !

   The 77 columns won't cause trouble.  The problem you had was that 
while 80 columns is the 'standard', many systems-software actually wrap 
anything over 78 columns.

   I don't know why this is, but I was told this when I started making 
the SAAAs.  So I have tried to make all my original art and composites to 
78 columns or less.

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Bob Allison:
>   The 77 columns won't cause trouble.  The problem you had was that 
>while 80 columns is the 'standard', many systems-software actually wrap 
>anything over 78 columns.

Actually, the Usenet transport system doesn't care how long lines are.
(Except things traveling over NNTP will probably get split at 255
chars, for stupid reasons.)

The usual causes of linewrap are news reading software, and news
posting software, and both of these *should* be controllable..
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