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Re: [rfc-i] line wrapping in XML

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 30 October 2020 01:14 UTC

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On 2020-10-30, at 02:04, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> 
> *confused* My understanding of what you wrote there was that it was still wrapped:

Yes, that is the classical way (you MUST wrap at some point on punched cards(*)).

Here the challenge is to resist simply refilling the sentence after each change (until that becomes an obvious improvement).
So you wrap, but don’t refill.

But in auto-flowing environments like this email, I don’t normally use wrapping (unless I copy text from an editor), and you might catch me writing another sentence on a single line.
But then we don’t diff mail...

Grüße, Carsten

(*) Actually, one's prose gets mightily better if each sentence does fit on a punched card :-)

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