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This is meta, but you can make the quoted text more readable if you add a newline after some X number of words, like this: Otellini said Intel passed on th
by chm 10y ago
This is meta, but you can make the quoted text more readable if you add a newline after some X number of words, like this:
Otellini said Intel passed on the opportunity to supply
Apple because the economics did not make sense at the
time given the forecast product cost and expected
volume. He told The Atlantic, "The thing you have
to remember is that this was before the iPhone was
introduced and no one knew what the iPhone would do...
At the end of the day, there was a chip that they were
interested in that they wanted to pay a certain price
for and not a nickel more and that price was below our
forecasted cost. I couldn't see it.
"It wasn't one of these things you can make up on
volume. And in hindsight, the forecasted cost was wrong
and the volume was 100x what anyone thought."
- rpgmaker 10y agoOh, so that's how it's done? I always thought there was a formatting rule I was missing. Thanks.
- chm 10y agoIt could be done automatically as it is indeed confusing. Each new line still needs 4 spaces though... I think!
- pohl 10y agoOne downside of this is that it becomes very unreadable on small devices (the user has to horizontally scroll back and forth to read each line, ugh) Representing quoted text in italics does not suffer that downside.
- chm 10y agoOh, I never noticed this as I use an app to read HN (forgot the name).