Re: Nabble Editor line wrapping

Posted by GregChapman on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Nabble-Editor-line-wrapping-tp7601337p7601344.html

Hi David,

Apologies! It seems I mis-guessed your level of experience! I also guess we are of similar ages.

I learnt to program in BASIC, as a 30 year old in the late 70s, on a teletype terminal,  while the HP mini all us students were connected to sat in a special air conditioned room next door and only gave up using a plain text email program - check out nPOPuk - when I finally switched to Linux three years ago.

DaveC49 wrote

It's just that the posts to the GnuCash Forum Nabble site are limited to a framework ~75 chars wide

As you say, that would seem to be a setting in the GnuCash Mailman list or that others are using similar software to you (as I note that when I reply to your message in Nabble Support it also wraps at around 7x characters - because of the limit you impose on your text).

Nabble is a web-based forum so follows web conventions and expectations, not the standards that were applicable to email 30 years ago. So I think it's a question of coming to terms with the web, where line breaks are meant to have semantic meaning and are not intended to be used for page layout, as one did when all you had were mono-pitched fonts and 80 character monitors.

Nabble does not force wrapping at 7x characters by default. It only does that if an email posted to the forum contains hard returns. There is no setting within Nabble to remove hard returns. Nabble will assume that people are using HTML mail programs that are compatible with the web.

I see two possible routes to a solution - neither ideal:

1. Ask the moderators of the GnuCash Mailman list to remove the 7x character line length and for you to turn off the feature in your editor. (Fixed line length emails and the web don't mix too well.)

2. Ask the owner of the GnuCash list to request that Nabble makes them the owner of the Nabble archive. Then they will be able to use the facility within Nabble to set the "Main Font" to one that is mono-spaced (and let them be prepared to face the wrath of those who use more modern software.)



PS: Remember this is a forum, not a mail list archive, so it is best NOT to quote any of the original message if you are to post via email, as that just clutters the forum with duplicate content, which then makes search results a complete mess. As ever - horses for courses!