[Marxism] That damned line-break formatting issue again.

[Aaron Aarons]

In the post quoted below, Richard quotes a paragraph of mine that I had carefully edited to keep all lines under 72 characters long. Then Richard's Microsoft Outlook decided to break them at some shorter length, thus creating the rather ugly mess with one-word lines interspersed with normal ones. This is the problem I pointed to when I first opined on this long-line vs. broken-line issue.

Since my last comment on this problem back on July 21, there have been several posts relating to what was being attempted to deal with it. Unfortunately, most of them were posted with irrelevant Subject headers, so I don't quite know where to look for them to figure out where we're at in the matter. (That discussion had, sadly, became rather emotional, as if we were having an argument about Stalin and Trotsky!)

Maybe this is a topic that can be pursued in an off-list discussion, since most list members probably aren't interested in anything but the outcome -- if that! Anybody who's interested can email me -- off-list, of course!

 - Aaron

P.S. I'll try to solve the problem of how MY lines appear when quoted by wrapping them to something real short, like 64 characters. But that won't solve the problem of one person's automatically-wrapped text being chopped up by a quoter's automatic wrapping, unless the latter's email program has the feature of allowing a separate, longer, setting for line length in quoted text. I think I used to do this in Eudora, but I don't remember how!

>From: "Richard Fidler" <rfidler_8 at sympatico.ca>
>Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:05:07 -0400
>Subject: Re: [Marxism] COLOMBIA - quo vadis?
>
>http://www.agapea.com/libros/Colombia-laboratorio-de-embrujos-isbn
>-8496797082-i.htm
>
>
>Speaking of Colombia, does anybody have a copy or, more to the
>point,
>know how to get hold of a copy of "Colombia, laboratorio de
>embrujos.
>Democracia y terrorismo de Estado" by Hernando Calvo Ospina? Every
>bookseller on the web that lists it says that it is unavailable,
>which
>seems strange for a book that was published in January of this
>year.
>James Petras apparently has it, since he wrote a long review --
>more
>like a condensed version -- of it.
>(http://petras.lahaine.org/articulo.php?p=1749).
>
> - Aaron