Re: [flow-fill.el] Filling of quoted blank lines

[Ralf Angeli <dev.null@iwi.uni-sb.de>]

* Simon Josefsson (2003-12-02) writes:

> I could not find that MID, but I found another message that looked like:
>
>>
>> foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar
>> foo bar
>
> This was rendered by Gnus as:
>
>> foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo bar foo
>> bar
>> foo bar
>
> (This message should illustrate this.)
>
> This is suboptimal, but I believe it is compliant given the weird
> input.
>
> Is this what you mean by "disappear"?

Not exactly.  Here is a copy of the contents of the message with the
MID given in my last article:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
From: Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss@alumni.TU-Berlin.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Collection of standard mathematical formulas
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 16:10:18 +0100
Organization: T-Online
Message-ID: <bqia0o$2tm$02$1@news.t-online.com>
References: <107028676.4Wq83rlaq2@ID-187157.news.dfncis.de> <slrnbsmr6r.s85.cswingle@nika.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu> <20585475.PkF9EzsXAW@ID-187157.news.dfncis.de> <pan.2003.12.02.15.02.53.985000@hotmail.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1070377817 02 2998 rZ2ZG4COnIJTpNi 031202 15:10:17
X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de
X-ID: TFLzxvZvgelGGK4mOw0S1FIeeYMZH1UXoRXOFqjqBYwDhffJjaRUgt
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, de
In-Reply-To: <pan.2003.12.02.15.02.53.985000@hotmail.com>

jblazi wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 08:53:15 +0100, Tristan Miller wrote:
> 
> 
>>  http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/
> 
> 
> How can I generate the PS output on Windows XP?

have a look at adobe for PS printer drivers

Herbert
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Notice the blanks after the `>' characters.  The text will be rendered
as:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
jblazi wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 08:53:15 +0100, Tristan Miller wrote:
>
>>  http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/
> How can I generate the PS output on Windows XP?

have a look at adobe for PS printer drivers

Herbert
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So every line with with a `^> \n$' will be deleted by the filling
function.

> I applied the patch, but the above message looked the same.  Perhaps
> there are two separate problems.

It might be.  Try to find an article produced by Mozilla which
encloses quoted blank lines and is of type `format=flowed'.

I found another one from comp.text.tex here:
<news:bq2tln$97m$04$1@news.t-online.com> This one is a bit older.

BTW: I don't know if the patch does not break filling `format=flowed'
messages completely as a change of `fill-column' did not have any
effect.

Regards,
Ralf

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