On 2025-03-05 16:17:20 +0000 (+0000), Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Tue Mar 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM GMT, Soren Stoutner wrote:> This is an interesting question based on a presumption that I didn’t > know was possible. In a plain text email, is it possible to > indicate that certain lines are not wrappable?Yes. That's exactly what format=flowed does. Line ends in space? Wrappable. Line doesn't? Not wrappable.
[...]Semantics maybe, but that's not how I interpret the format=flowed spec (or perhaps the question).
Having a space at the end of a line indicates the line has been soft-wrapped by the sender, so from the reader's perspective the line should be logically (re)combined with the line following it. That doesn't exactly say whether or not a line *can* be wrapped, but rather that it was preemptively soft-wrapped and so can be automatically "unwrapped" or "rewrapped" after concatenating subsequent lines.
Absence of a space at the line end doesn't say not to wrap that line, but merely not to combine it with the line that follows. The line itself can still be wrapped as needed if it exceeds the client's preferred length.
-- Jeremy Stanley
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