Re: [OT} Re: Newsgroup

From: Gary S. (Idontwantspam_at_net)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 20:10:38 GMT

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:10:02 GMT, John Miller <me2@privacy.net> wrote:

>Mike Coon wrote:
>> Now even text-only devices can surely use proportional fonts so a fixed
>> character width for line breaks doesn't make so much sense as it once did.
>
>Quite right, however, a more readable (narrower) column width makes lots
>of sense.
>
>Actually, in a perfect world, folks could write an entire paragraph with
>no breaks, and leave it up to the reader device (hdw or sfw) to sort it
>out. Regrettably, we ain't there yet...

As soon as we all agree on software, and software suppliers agree on
standards. The day after someday.

Sometimes the LCD is necessary until all of the world is at the same
level of technology. But we have people with a 15 to 20 year spread in
their software.

Among MS Office users, I am not sure you can count on everyone having
Office 97 or later, there are still those using Office 95 (which
cannot read files from later versions).

Much easier within an internal corporate framework, where consistency
can be enforced.

Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear) 

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