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Text reflow woes (or: I want bullets back!)y

lel lel at envs.net

Fri Jan 17 13:58:04 GMT 2020

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On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 01:33:12PM +0000, solderpunk wrote:
> It's possible even that what I'm about to describe is exactly what the
> "long line" folks have been talking about all along without my
> realising it.
> ...
> There is another option that I hadn't thought about until now, which
> is to do only the first half of 2. above.  That is, lines longer than
> the viewport get broken up nicely at word boundaries into lines of
> length equal to or less than the viewport width - but that's it.
> Consecutive shorter lines are *not* joined together.  Blank lines in
> the "source" are rendered, one by one, into empty vertical space.
> The renderer has no explicit concept of a paragraph.

Yes, this is exactly what I was trying to say. There's no need to joinsubsequent lines together. That's just reflowing, as far as I can tell.But you don't need to reflow in that specific way unless your contentis inconveniently hard-wrapped when you want it to be resizable. Thissort of reflowing leads to loss of information if the singleline-breaks were intended and meaningful, so it makes more sense to meto not add those line-breaks into the content, but into their renderingon the client-side.

This is the happiest I've been to see an email in a while honestly lol

~ lel