Re: [OT] Quoting (was RE: Irish spelling)

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Marco
Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@...>
wrote:

> Etaonsh, may I ask you to leave a

blank line between each quoted block
and

> your new text? Like this:
>
> Foo Bar wrote:
> > The horse is white.
>
> No, you foo, the horse is black.
>
> > And I can demonstrate it very

easily.

>
> There's nothing to demonstrate:

it's black.

>
> Richard
>
> Your current style of quoting is

more compact, but very difficult to
read: I

> don't understand which parts were

written by you and which parts are

> quotations of your interlocutor.
>
> Also, you may wish to check your

line length setting. Most people use
at

> least 60 chars per line; your

current setting of less that 40
chars per line

> makes very short lines.
>
> Ciao.
> Marco
>

Marco: My replies are distinguished
from the quotes by the lack of '>'s
between lines.
I am flitting between tv internet
and public computers at present and,
in the former, '>'s are needed to
create blank lines, and the line
length is restricted by the system.
I am contemplating installing a
computer but am finding the
gains/risk equations difficult.