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Re: [PHP3] textwrapping From: Ari Davidow (ari <email protected>)
Date: 07/21/98

>Right now I'm using fmt (from gnu textutils) to wrap mails at 80 columns. I
>found the following code at one of the php code archives:

For what it's worth, you might consider wrapping at a different
width. 80 columns is an artifact of the maximum width of old
terminals. As it happens, the eye begins losing track of lines
at about 60 characters (3 grabs of ~20 characters), so going
beyond about 65 characters is contraindicated if readability
matters.

In addition, there are several things that happen to text
(the >>s for quoting, as one example) that will make lines
wider, so, again, keeping your wrap within the boundaries
of reasonable readability can have other benefits.

ari

Ari Davidow
ari <email protected>
http://www.ivritype.com/ 

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