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After reading through the post, I think that more, if not almost all, posts should be in plain text.
by u801e 4y ago
After reading through the post, I think that more, if not almost all, posts should be in plain text.
- 2b3a51 4y agoJust wondering about the line length. Would piping the OA through `fmt` not help readability?
- u801e 4y agoformat=flowed [1] could work, but, given most implementations I've seen, you would have to resize the window to get the desired line length. [1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2646.txt
- 2b3a51 4y agoThanks, I'll investigate how to set format=flowed in Seamonkey. I've never actually read an RFC before. I went with wget https://tdarb.org/ -O - | markdown | lynx -stdin for now having noticed that the text files are in Markdown format. I was curious as to why the text files on the server were not hard wrapped to a fixed width. I tried the 'shinobi' script locally with some dummy posts with fixed width text and it worked ok browsing both the text files themselves and as rss/xml feed in Seamonkey.
- thorncorona 4y agoWhy? It looks absolutely garish and hard to read.
- opan 4y agoYou could view it in a browser, pager, or text editor of your choice and apply your favorite font and font size.
- o4b 4y agoWho is looking to read this content on a pager? The interface for 99% of folks has been degraded for this benefit. This is why simple styling plus a printer-friendly page work wonders.
- opan 4y agoJust to clarify, by pager I meant like "less", not like the physical object that makes noises when called.