Re: ANNOUNCE: PC Yarn v0.91 - SOUP offline reader for MS-DOS and OS/2

Richard Steiner (rsteiner@skypoint.com)
Thu, 20 Jun 1996 11:14:07 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, James Huang wrote:

> Sorry about the incomplete message. Was interrupted and my fingers flew
> out of control. <g>

I hate it when that happens... ;-)

> > > > This text, on the other hand, is being wrapped
> > > > by Yarn, and appears in a very narrow paragraph
> > > > because the user specified a small number for a
> > > > "right column" value. :-)
>
> This, I believe is more your editor's doing. There is nothing in Yarn's
> CONFIG file where one can set a "right-margin".

The above quote was provided as an illustration of how a smart wrapping
function could work -- obviously Yarn doesn't have a wrapping function
like that yet. But it might. :-)

> > > The DOS comm program I use from time to time (Telemate) supports
> > > this type of intelligent wrapping in its paste-with-quote-prefix
> > > function.
>
> Maybe Chin could re-engineer that to get the code? <g>

For all I know, Winfred (Telemate author) might be willing to make the
source for that bit available, but I don't know.

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