jim said:
The font that comes up is too small.
make it bigger.
The lines are clipped and do not display the right end.
that's because firefox doesn't wrap the lines. and that's the very point which i was making.
The line lengths are too long.
except the "lines" will be even _longer_ when each of them is a full paragraph... so once again, jim, you are arguing on both sides of the fence, which is why i rarely deign to reply to you any more, and usually regret the few times i do...
The topic, actually, is "Talking about TXT"
no, jim. that's the subject-header. but you directly quoted my post, where i was answering _this_ question, posed by andrew:
I wonder what reasoning was used to settle on the txt-less-than-80 format...
so your reaction to my post was off its topic... plus, as we just saw above, you are arguing from both sides of the position anyway, so there's nothing solid in your points anyway.
so I think you had better find something else better to whine about in my posting -- and I am sure you will do so.
i don't need to "find something else", jim, as i'm capable of staying on the same side of an argument, with solid logic backing me.
should read "Machines that can show the left half of the txt."
you might try making your browser-window wider.
I think we would be happy if you were simply busy supporting customers
my software is cost-free, jim, so i won't have any "customers". just end-users who love me dearly... you're in over your head, jim. really, just give it up. -bowerbird
I "love you dearly," Uncle Bowerbird. But I am unsubscribing from this list. (Yes, I know. I never really contributed anything here. Sorry about that. I am busy with work, and I will be off to work on this unfinished ebook -- Ann Judson's Account Of The American Baptist Mission To The Burman Empire, if you care to know -- as soon as I get a chance.) Thanks for everything, everybody (and I do mean that). -- b On Oct 30, 2011, at 8:57 PM, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
jim said:
The font that comes up is too small.
make it bigger.
The lines are clipped and do not display the right end.
that's because firefox doesn't wrap the lines.
and that's the very point which i was making.
The line lengths are too long.
except the "lines" will be even _longer_ when each of them is a full paragraph...
so once again, jim, you are arguing on both sides of the fence, which is why i rarely deign to reply to you any more, and usually regret the few times i do...
The topic, actually, is "Talking about TXT"
no, jim. that's the subject-header.
but you directly quoted my post, where i was answering _this_ question, posed by andrew:
I wonder what reasoning was used to settle on the txt-less-than-80 format...
so your reaction to my post was off its topic...
plus, as we just saw above, you are arguing from both sides of the position anyway, so there's nothing solid in your points anyway.
so I think you had better find something else better to whine about in my posting -- and I am sure you will do so.
i don't need to "find something else", jim, as i'm capable of staying on the same side of an argument, with solid logic backing me.
should read "Machines that can show the left half of the txt."
you might try making your browser-window wider.
I think we would be happy if you were simply busy supporting customers
my software is cost-free, jim, so i won't have any "customers". just end-users who love me dearly...
you're in over your head, jim. really, just give it up.
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On 10/31/11 3:06 AM, Benjamin Klein wrote:
I "love you dearly," Uncle Bowerbird. But I am unsubscribing from this list.
(Yes, I know. I never really contributed anything here. Sorry about that. I am busy with work, and I will be off to work on this unfinished ebook -- Ann Judson's Account Of The American Baptist Mission To The Burman Empire, if you care to know -- as soon as I get a chance.)
Which is a shame.
You're in over your head, Jim. Really, just give it up.
And this is precisely the kind of message which makes volunteers go away. There is nothing constructive about this. Regards, Walter
make it bigger.
I know how to hack browsers to do this but your average book-reader customer does not.
that's because firefox doesn't wrap the lines.
If you make the lines shorter it still doesn't wrap lines.
you might try making your browser-window wider...
...if one has a display capable of usably displaying 80 chars per line, a display which is known generically as a "teletype display" -- circa 1970. The teletype was set at this number of chars to use up the entire width of a standard 8.5 wide roll of paper.
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