On Thu Feb 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM GMT, Andrej Shadura wrote:
That’s not entirely true: 80-column text often doesn’t fit on mobile phone screens, and because it’s pre-formatted, it cannot be reflowed easily, so it ends up an unreadable mess of alternating long and short lines (the short ones being the result of long ones being wrapped but not being long enough to actually fill the line).
*IFF* your reader supports format=flowed, you can have the best of both worlds. Essentially you wrap at a column <80 for "legacy" reasons, but end each line that is part of a continuous sentence/paragraph with ' '. Clients supporting format=flowed then know which lines can be conjoined and which cannot, and can wrap to the end-user's preference.
We could even survey what MUAs people care about and settle on a column to wrap at for those in the set which don't support format=flowed.
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