Hello Maurice!
** On Monday 07.03.22 - 16:38, you wrote to me:
AA>> The screen is not ideal for incoming originally wide
AA>> lines (the body of the text tends to honour the presence
AA>> of hard CRs., and the since the screen is a perfect 2"x2"
AA>> square, there is no landscape-view option.
MK> None of that should matter. What does matter is the word
MK> wrapping upon display. I note that in the case of the
MK> original it appears to hardwrap at 72 characters which I
MK> believe goes back to the teletype days ... either that or
MK> line printers, although I doubt that since there were many
MK> printers back then that could do much more than 80
MK> characters nevermind 72.
As it stands now, the @Fido2telebot interface tries to not
modify message content in transit. The exception might be in
R)eplies from the Telegram side by only quoting as far back as
the 3rd level, and not anything higher.
It would be nice to have CRs removed from the EOLs within a
paragraph so that the messages arriving from the Fido side
would look less jaggy on my 2x2 screen. But my eye has adapted
quite well to that, and now I don't mind as much.
AA>> However, I understand that smartphones with 16:9 screens
AA>> can be tilted horizontally to get a better representation
AA>> of some messages that arrive in the original 70-80char
AA>> per line form.
MK> With the default font, an android based tablet can handle
MK> 80 character width on both portrait and landscape modes
MK> (16:9). I imagine the same can be said for smartphones
MK> and other handheld devices.
I have not found a font-type or fontsize control on my
Blackberry. The lettering is already pretty small as it is. :(
AA>> And.. I also use the desktop version which I find is the
AA>> easiest way to produce a reply.
MK> Proper word wrapping would be required to convince me. I
MK> have a tablet that can produce proper MSGs that is
MK> entirely capable of both displaying and creating MSGs that
MK> does this the correct way without ANY changes to standards
MK> ... or worse; goofy kludges that create more problems and
MK> solve absolutely nothing.
The current incarnation of @Fido2telebot is barely 3 years in
the making. It has made tremendous strides in features and
functionaly during that time. Many of those are probably due to
my whining and [strike-through]complaints![/strikethrough]
suggestions. LOL.
The developer has recognized that maybe it is time to release
the code on github.
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