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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 17 Mar 1997.
Re: Linewrap and more!

Re: Linewrap and more!

mnu...@ma.ultranet.com (Michael Nute):
> There are some of us whose eyes are not quite so good.
> I prefer to use a font size of 10, to avoid squinting.

Some eyes even need a font size of 42 which allows for about two characters
per line and a dozen quotations with an indent prefix of !$&#.

> I *can't stand* scrolling sideways.
> I set my wordwrap at 72 to avoid this.

Some people just instruct the program they use for reading text
to wordwrap at the margin.  And some toggle this when required.

Btw, thank you for quoting everything - it makes reading much more fun.  NOT!

Next on alt.ascii-art :  Which character to use for people without monitors.

Sven

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From: guc...@banach.math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
Subject: Re: Linewrap and more!
Date: 1997/03/17
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