On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 09:49:46AM +0100, Alan Gauld wrote: > >>>>>> I don't really see any reason to use less than 79 in 2013. > >>>>> The reason for preferring shorter lines is to leave room for > >>>>> the chevrons when the message gets quoted multiple times. > >>>> That's just crazy > >>> Maybe but its the reason given > >> I prefer using different colours the way Outlook does it > > But that needs rich text and I hate rich text
And it also makes it hard to impossible for the colour blind to tell what is quoted how many times. I wish mail clients would support rich text rather than HTML. There actually is a standard for rich text which does not have the disadvantages of HTML mail (bloat, security implications, vulnerable to malware): http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1896 but of course any form of rich text is vulerable to people with rubbish taste screaming in ALL CAPS BOLD ITALIC RED TEXT WITH GREEN UNDERLINED SPACES BETWEEN WORDS... :-) Since this is a Python list, I should also mention ReST (ReStructured Text), which is the Python standard for generating rich text from plain text markup (not to be confused with Markdown, which is another competing, but not quite as powerful, standard). ReST has the advantage that it is human readable. For example: This is a header ---------------- This paragraph contains *italic* and **bold** text. - These are bullet points. - No kidding. - Told you it was readable. I wish mail clients would support rich text using ReST or Markdown. The mail client could still include a GUI so you choose formatting commands rather than have to type markup. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
