"JR" <rhondeau2001@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:eb9H85E$FHA.912@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl
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> "PA Bear" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote
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> Tip 2: OE Tools > Options > Send > News Sending Format > Plain Text >
> Decrease line wrapping to 78 or lower.
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> I've always had problems with OE truncating my messages


Elaborate on what you mean exactly by "truncating" messages.

If you mean "breaking" paragraphs by inserting spurious line ends
you have to be aware of how line ends get inserted when you are
composing in Plain Text format. In particular if you are using
its "Automatically wrap text at..." option (which unfortunately
can not be disabled) consider that every paragraph which does
not flow continuously (e.g. in a maximized window) presents
the possibility of having small (broken) lines somewhere
in the middle of it.

Instead, what I do is set that option at its maximum of 132
and perform my own formatting just as I used to long ago
on typewriters or computer terminals. As long as I can see
a pleasing format in a maximized window I know that OE's
mindless Autowrap "feechur" won't break it.

At least that is the way it used to work before OE6sp2
added its implementation of Format=Flowed. Now, it is not
enough to have pre-inspected the format of a composition;
I may also have to do a post-inspection of it in the Outbox
(with Work Offline on of course!) because Format=Flowed
is apparently applied to _quoted_ text only *after* it is
written to either Drafts or the Outbox. An alternative to
having to do this (apart from fiddling with the Autowrap
limit) is to make sure that every quoted line does not end
with a space but that is only practical with very brief quotes.


> and have recommended
> several times that Microsoft include a feature in OE that was in the early
> browsers of Netcom in late 90's. They had a tab you could slide wherever you
> wanted the text to wrap which made it really easy to do and resulted in a
> much neater message..


In fact, WordPad has this feature (called "Wrap to ruler").
I haven't checked to see how feasible it would be
to use it in its Text mode and then copy and paste
from WordPad into OE. And I also don't know
if WordPad makes the user any more aware of when
too long lines (e.g. wrapped lines) are being created.
That is the only problem I have occasionally with my technique.
Occasionally, especially when concatenating or pasting
in a normal mode composition window, I lose track
of where the line ends are and end up creating lines
which are much bigger than I would have intended.


> I did check my settings in Tools/Options/Send/News
> Sending Format/Plain Text and it is 78.. ??
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> I also tried to send the original post using the Mozilla Thunderbird Client
> but it wouldn't accept it so I used OE..

There's your answer then. Probably the line size that you had there
is the problem. E.g. if it was over 90 there and you copy and pasted
the paragraphs that it created without making those lines flow in a new
paragraph you would have your symptom of 78 character lines each
followed by a line with a few more words. Unfortunately OE would
treat each of those lines as a small paragraph and thus let them "flow"
to their original length on the composition window, so you would be
unlikely to realize that they would be subject to chopping up at the
Autowrap limit.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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