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  • hard wrapping versus long lines

    From Ben Collver@bencollver@tilde.pink to comp.infosystems.gopher on Mon Feb 19 16:00:39 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.infosystems.gopher

    From: <gopher://magical.fish/0/phlog/thoughts-on-text-formatting>

    These days, mobile gopher browsing is an actual thing. Hard
    formatted text makes for jagged mishapen display, which is
    difficult and annoying to read.

    Any decent gopher client will simply wrap text. Gopher clients have
    a great deal of power, and they should use it wisely to give the
    user the best experience.

    Considering that mobile phones are basically supercomputers in
    people's pockets, it's interesting that they would have trouble
    rewrapping text and not showing "jaggies." Web browsers rewrap
    text all the time. It doesn't matter if lines are hard wrapped
    to 70 characters, they get rewrapped.

    If you don't like how text files display on your screen, then take
    it up with the developer of your gopher browser. Or find a better
    one.

    Indeed.

    -Ben
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