At 11:45 -0700 7/2/1999, Geoffrey Waigh wrote:
>Frank da Cruz wrote:
>>
>> > Why are you specifying font characteristics for plain text?
>> >
>> Only for purposes of getting across the idea that "long line = paragraph,
>> break where you please" should not be considered well-formed plain text.
>> Or, to look at it the other way, that plain text must allow for hard line
>> breaks, and there should be a convention as to how long we might reasonably
>> expect lines to be.
[much snippage]
There cannot be an enforceable line length limit on plain text. One of the
uses of plain text is for database interchange, where any number of fields
of any length, plus separators, may constitute a line.
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