[pmwiki-users] Word wrap problem

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

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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