<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -x-system-font: none;" valign="top">> I'm using Mandrake 10.1 [Linux] OS to view the internet thru Firefox. <br>> In my mailbox, everything is fine--my stuff formats well (and when it <br>> comes back to me as Tutor 'mail' it also formats correctly).<br>><br>> The problem is over at the Tutor Archives (<span style="font-style:
italic;">mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor), <br>> </span>i.e., the Tutor forum site. That's where whatever I composed formats <br>> out with no line wrap, and a paragraph becomes a single line, <br><br>Yes I see that. I don't use that archive I normally use gmane...<br><br>However that is probably down to whatever mail program you are <br>using to post with. Is it a web client or a full blown thick client mail <br>tool like Thunderbird?<br><br>Whichever, it probably has an option to automatically wrap sent text<br>and I suspect you have that turned off. A good value is usually <br>around 70 or 80 chars.<br><br>FWIW I have the opposite problem using gmail, it consistently wraps <br>my text prematurely leaving my paragraphs badly formatted. And I <br>can't find where to change the setting!<br><br></td></tr></tbody></table>HTH,<br><br>Alan G.<br>
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