st: How to "format" Statalist posts

[Nicole Boyle <nicboyle@gmail.com>]

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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