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Re: st: How to "format" Statalist posts
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Nicole Boyle <[email protected]>
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Re: st: How to "format" Statalist posts
Date
Mon, 2 Sep 2013 13:25:58 -0700
Hmm, looking at my original post, it appears that I may be immune to
this horizontal text trailing issue, as suggested by those
automatically inserted line breaks in those first few paragraphs.
Perhaps Statalist formatting depends on the email server or client
used when posting? I'm currently posting through Gmail via browser
(Chrome).
Nicole
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:04 PM, 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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