Re: Line spacing of signatures

Re: Line spacing of signatures

[Juha Autero]

dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) writes:

> For some time, I've been seeing some signatures displayed
> double-spaced, with an extra blank line following each line of
> text. The signature is otherwise properly treated by Gnus, and the
> spacing in the rest of the message seems correct.  This occurs in
> Emacs running under X, in a term window, and directly on the console.

Do you have 80 characters wide Emacs window in X? Maybe the lines in
signature are longer than 80 characters. (Or exactly 80 characters.)
Are there little arrows in the end of lines? Probably the signatures
have spaces padding the lines to exactly 80 characters.

Here is an example
         1         2         3         4         5         6         7        7
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 
This text is padded so that each line is exactly 80 characters long. Since      
Xemacs uses the last character position for the line continuation arrow, last   
character in each line must be space. Otherwise you will have lone characters at
beginning of lines, which shows what happens. 

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Juha Autero
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