Re: RFC 2646 format=flowed

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On Tue, 25 September 12:08 Toralf Lund wrote:
> On 2001.09.23 17:06 Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> >I've just posted a new patch for recognizing text of type 
> >`format=flowed', as defined by RFC 2646, as an enhancement on Bugzilla:
> >
> >http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60997
> >
> >Please note that this patch requires current cvs, including Albrecht's 
> >forwarding patch, and conflicts with earlier source trees, including 
> >1.2.0.
> 
> It disappoints me a bit that the RFC fails to address some issues related 
> to flowed texts, like paragraph indentation. Comments?

RFC 2646 has a very narrow scope which is specifying a format to differentiate
soft and hard line breaks in a text/plain document.  The actual formatting of
paragraphs and how to indent them are application issues and do not affect
interoperability.  An application is free to deal with this as it sees fit.

Brian