[Axiom-developer] line wrapping diffs from MathAction

[Page, Bill]

On Monday, December 20, 2004 8:05 PM Bob McElrath wrote:
> 
> Page, Bill address@hidden wrote:
> > 
> > Since ZWiki appears to generate the email directly from the
> > original source format, on the last edits to the website that
> > I did, I deliberately keep the editing line length of the
> > text contents short, anticipating how these edits would look
> > when sent out as email. I think the fact that you found the
> > result more readable confirms my proposal that ZWiki should
> > do such line folding automatically during the preparation
> > of the email.
> > 
> > I can make this change on the MathAction site and then
> > propose a patch to the ZWiki developers. 
> 
> There used to be such functionality in zwiki...that I removed.
> It was mangling emails when a zwiki page was used as a mailing
> list.
> 
> line wrapping is fine as long as it is done by the diff piece
> or web-form submit piece.  Just don't mangle incoming emails.
>  ;)
>

I agree. What I had in mind would apply only to the emails
generated as diffs. After I thought about this a little
more, I realize that you may be right to imply that doing
this folding in a naive manner on text with a complex
format might well mangle some things badly. On the other
hand, the un-rendered wiki text itself is quite simple in
format (by design) so in most cases folding this (or diffs
of this) should not make things too unreable - especially
if I try to maintain the indent level if it is structured
text. Don't you think?

> The code is at the end of Mail.py, formatMailout() and in my
> codebase, and there are some relevant things in tests/testMail.py.
> If you have any trouble locating the old code, shoot me an email
> and I'll send it to you.
> 

Ok thanks.

Regards,
Bill Page.