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Re: [Nmh-workers] extra and missing blank lines with replyfilter
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Joel Uckelman |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] extra and missing blank lines with replyfilter |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:47:34 -0700 |
Thus spake Ken Hornstein:
> >I'm sure it's running through par. I have par installed, and when I change
> >the $filterprogram from 'par' to 'cat', I get each paragraph of the reply
> >as one very long line, instead of lines broken at 70-some characters. With
> >cat, however, I'm not losing the inter-paragraph blank lines, nor am I
> >getting blank lines inserted at the beginning.
>
> Okay! Well, that's good, at least. That sounds like replyfilter is
> doing what it's supposed to, at least. So if you take the output of what you
> get with 'cat' and feed it to 'par', does it generate the broken output?
No. When I do that, I get the output I expected to see in the first
place: Nicely formatted paragraphs, lines between them retained, all
quoted with >, and no spurious leading lines.
> If so, then it sounds like par is at fault ... and I'm not sure what I
> can do about that. Other than suggest you change your par settings.
I need par settings? I don't have any, that I know of.
> Also, if the text is sent with a non-ASCII encoding, maybe there are
> some non-breakable spaces that are messing up par?
I see "charset=us-ascii" in the Content-Type of the MIME part.
Would it help if I sent you the actual message?
--
J.