[pmwiki-users] Word wrap problem
Jonathan Scott Duff
duff at pobox.com
Mon Apr 18 16:03:44 CDT 2005
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 03:02:38PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 03:21:23PM -0400, Radu wrote:
> > I was thinking along the same lines, and then I remembered that I'm using
> > the white space extensively for it's original purpose (making text
> > preformatted) as well as for the table-formatting macro Pm graciously coded.
> >
> > It may be worth it teaching people to use > in their email programs;
>
> FWIW, anyone who is using an email client that doesn't already use
> '> ' for quoted responses is unlikely to know how to do this (or care
> to go to the effort of doing it).
>
> > then a
> > macro could be made to color-code the chunks of comments from each sender,
> > and even to replace the stacks of '> >' with 'AuthorName:' :)
>
> Yes, something like this could be done, assuming there's sufficient
> standardization of quoting techniques to make it happen. :-)
Text::Autoformat seems to do a really good job in the perl world.
Perhaps you could crib the REs and whatever other techniques are used
in that module.
-Scott
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Jonathan Scott Duff
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