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Hmm. Almost makes sense to write emails with deliberate newlines--not counting the widths, but advancing the line as it were (ourselves), like how we'd
by turtleyacht 1y ago
Hmm.
Almost makes sense to write emails
with deliberate newlines--not counting
the widths, but advancing the line as
it were (ourselves), like how we'd do
with a typewriter.
Because (in Outlook) I didn't like
seeing the message stretch out past
where my eyes could scroll too far
right; instead, to Enter when each
line sort of looked alright, some
length among their sentence homes.
- nkrisc 1y agoOh, come on, please, no. You have no idea on how wide of a window or screen I'm reading it with or what my font size is. Just write text, separate paragraphs, and let me format it how I like to read it.
- turtleyacht 1y agoYes, it's preferable to show text according to reader's formatting. By the way, HN will flow jagged text when it's not prepended with two spaces (code markup). Had to mark it up on purpose. So, you wouldn't know this sentence was separated into six lines. But in editing, it preserves the literal format.
- int_19h 1y agoThe single most annoying thing about HN formatting logic is that there's no way to do a newline without introducing a new paragraph. It makes e.g. bullet point lists - which are very useful in some cases - very frustrating to write, and even more frustrating to read.