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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> writes:
> Keith Thompson to Anton Shepelev:
[...]
>>You  seem to go to some effort to make all lines in
>>your articles have the same length.  In my opinion,
>>this  hurts  readability.   Words  are split across
>>lines unnecessarily, and double  spaces  are  arbi-
>>trarily inserted between some words.  I suggest you
>>don't bother.

And you even do it to quoted text.  (I sometimes reformat quoted text
myself, so I'm not complaining specifically about that.)

> I format my posts with GNU Troff.
>
>>I find this:
>>
>>>The flexibility that I wanted was the reading of tuples of
>>>user-supplied cardinality into arrays.  I did assume the
>>>data was machine-generated and optimised for reading speed
>>>by means of fixed-width numbers.  This allowed me to jump
>>>from one number to the next instead of scanning through the
>>>intervening whitespace.
>>
>>more readable.
>
> Even in monospaced font?

Especially in monospaced font.  99% of the posts here are *not*
formatted with constant line widths, and for good reason.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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