Posted by Martin Jay on 04/11/06 18:01

In message <pan.2006.04.11.08.11.32.257009@thurston.blinkynet.net>,
Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> writes
>Poly-poly man wrote:
>
>> Excuse the ascii-art :)
>
>Did you do that with a proportional font, so that it takes the same font
>that you're viewing when you compose to see it the way you intended it?
>If so, use a fixed font next time so the drawing isn't font-dependent.
>Remember, ASCII art doesn't come from the world of word processing.
>Here's what I see of that attempt, with fixed pitch:
>
>http://blinkynet.net/stuff/comp/mess.jpg

Hmmm, it displays here okay here using a fixed pitch font.

It looks to me as though Pan (your reader) may be trying to reflow the
message because its header contains:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

According to RFC2646, 4.2:

"If the line ends in one or more spaces, the line is flowed. Otherwise
it is fixed. Trailing spaces are part of the line's content, but the
CRLF of a soft line break is not."

So, one or more SPACE(S) followed by CRLF is a soft line break and
should be reflowed.

Anything else followed by CRLF is a hard line break and should not be
reflowed.

There doesn't appear to be any spaces after the lines in the 'ASCII
art.'
--
Martin Jay

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