On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 09:52:39 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: >Giul asked: >>>Peter F: Why did you double-space the matter quoted in hour reply? >>It's distracting. (I cleaned it up.) > >Various email services, including Gmail, tend to show hard linebreaks as >double spaced. I have an Outlook macro that converts hard to soft for this >reason, and run it when I remember to before posting. > Oh. I recall that about forty years ago(!) MS Word treated ENTER as ΒΆ.
>Color me slightly amazed that this far into the email adventure* we're still >dealing with weirdness like this! > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown> ... should not be the default. Code samples don't work with smart-ass quotes and italicized pathnames. Some processors have a magic number to disable/enable markdown. Or an editor option. And the behavior can depend on whether text is entered: o From a file o paste from clipboard o from keyboard. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
