----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Goldberg" To: "Baptiste Lepilleur" Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 2:58 AM Subject: Re: Text Reformatter > Baptiste Lepilleur wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I just drop just you a line to let you know that TTR 1.2.2 is out. The > > support for clipboard cut & paste has been added. > > > > For the special indent character rule, I see a rule that would be as > > follows: "A line begins a paragraph is the indent string is different > > from the indent string of the previous line". An indent string being > > the string formed by all the indent character that are at the > > beginning of the line. > > > > This rules will be added (I have at time encountered that problem). > > Cool, thanks. > > > The one thing that trouble me is what about the output? For HTML, it > > would be possible to just keep the indentation level and strip out the > > indent string, but what about unwrapped text ? The only way I can > > think to make this work is with the soon to come save as text on n > > columns (rewrap the text against a specified right margin). > > I realize that the main use of saving a file in unwrapped form is to > later import it into a word processor, and in such a case there isn't > really any best thing you can do. Perhaps surround each block of > text-that-should-be-indented with some kind of highly visible markers so > that one can manually indented it later (I would suggest long lines of > "{{{{{" and "}}}}}}", or something similar). > > What are you planning for when converting to HTML? There's two things > I've seen for quoting mail/news in an HTML mail composer: > >
> Put however many lines of indented/quoted text you have here, > with the indent string stripped out. >That one works fine but jump a line when displaying. > > That is simplest and easiest. I think Netscape uses something like: > >
> | > Put however many lines of indented/quoted text you have here, > with the indent string stripped out. > | >