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Re: st: How to "format" Statalist posts
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: How to "format" Statalist posts
Date
Mon, 2 Sep 2013 23:04:53 +0100
The Statalist advice is that people do pay attention to the content
and presentation of their posts. That's in their own best interests.
For example, I recently deleted a post that was so badly presented
that I doubted that a second reading would make clear what the poster
had in mind.
But what you refer to seems a product of what mailer you use. Yet I
notice that you use gmail, at least for Statalist, just as I do. That
seems to produce reasonable line breaks in continuous prose without
needing attention. I need to be more careful if presenting code, but
otherwise I don't think gmail is problematic.
Nick
[email protected]
On 2 September 2013 21:04, Nicole Boyle <[email protected]> wrote:
> What is the correct way to "format" plain text posts to Statalist? I
> notice that Statalist contributors that don't manually insert line
> breaks (perhaps as demonstrated in this very sentence I'm writing now)
> have text trailing horizontally into infinity. These posts, IMHO, are
> not very reader-friendly.
>
> However, I've also tried to preemptively circumvent this issue by
> inserting line breaks (via carriage return), but things often don't
> work out quite like they should; line breaks occasionally seem to
> appear in places I didn't put them, thereby introducing a different
> type of reader-unfriendliness.
>
> Here's an example that may (or may not, since I won't know until this
> is permanently posted) demonstrate this, using the previous paragraph:
>
> "However, I've also tried to preemptively circumvent this issue by
> inserting line breaks via carriage return), <CARRIAGE RETURN>
> but things often don't work out quite like they should; line breaks
> occasionally seem to <CARRIAGE RETURN>
> appear in places I didn't put them, thereby <CARRIAGE RETURN>
> introducing a different type of reader-unfriendliness."
>
>
> So, any tips on how to better post to Statalist?
>
> Thanks,
> Nicole
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