Re: [gutvol-d] Talking about TXT
i said:
maximize the number of viable machines!
by the way, some web-browsers (notably, firefox) do not wrap the lines when they display a .txt file. whether they should, or not, is another question... but the reality is that some do not. (others _do_.) so if p.g. deleted their mid-paragraph linebreaks, those .txt files would become unwieldy in firefox... -bowerbird
so if p.g. deleted their mid-paragraph linebreaks, those .txt files would become unwieldy in firefox...
I go to PG. I open any of the txt files in firefox. Q: Is the result something in practice that is useful to actually read? A: No it is not. It is "too unwieldy" to try to read PG txt files this way. So, the fact that lack of linebreaks makes txt unreadable in firefox doesn't matter -- because firefox is unusable in any case in practice to read PG txt files.
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Jim Adcock <jimad@msn.com> wrote:
so if p.g. deleted their mid-paragraph linebreaks, those .txt files would become unwieldy in firefox...
I go to PG. I open any of the txt files in firefox.
Q: Is the result something in practice that is useful to actually read?
A: No it is not. It is "too unwieldy" to try to read PG txt files this way.
So, the fact that lack of linebreaks makes txt unreadable in firefox doesn't matter -- because firefox is unusable in any case in practice to read PG txt files.
Only by extreme definitions of the word "unusable", ones that bear a strange resemblance to "it's not my tool". -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.
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