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Announce News Post #1464

Wrapwidth

Written by: Dranor, God of Imagination
Date: Friday, February 19th, 2010
Addressed to: Everyone


Imperian now supports a configurable wrapwidth. The wrapwidth is the
number of characters that will be displayed on a single line of text
before Imperian automatically inserts a new-line character, and
continues sending that text on the next line.

The syntax to configure your wrapwidth is CONFIG WRAPWIDTH <#>. If you
set your width as 0, Imperian will not do any automatic wrapping when
sending large blocks of text to you. I would advise against setting your
wrap width to anything less than 79, as that will probably look funny.

However, Imperian's core output design is still predicated on a 79
character (the default) wrap width. This means that many tables and
output formatting that doesn't consist of just sending chunks of plain
text will still be formatted with that in mind.

Many help files, news posts, journals, and org help files will still
probably look a little bit funny with a non-default wrapwidth, depending
on how they were written. Some may wrap automatically, and some may not
wrap automatically. This is due to the different ways that they can be
written and is not an easy thing to fix across the board for all files.

I have, however, adjusted all replica descriptions, particularly ones
that were created by tradeskills. New items created with tradeskills
should also not have newlines automatically embedded in them, which
means that they will be properly wrapped according to your wrapwidth.

Most people will probably just be happy leaving it at the default (79),
but many power users who frequently use lots of triggers may benefit
from having it set at 0.

If you find any things that look absolutely horrible, or seem to be
wrapping inproperly, with a new wrapwidth, please let me know ASAP so
that I can fix them.

Finally, I've also adjusted Vodun Illusion, Thespia Feign, Artistry
Globe, Elemancy Illusion, and Tarot Creator so that you can use the
character sequence "\n" to force your illusions to wrap, as you will no
longer be able to rely on spacing alone. If I've missed any other
illusion producing abilities, let me know.

Penned by my hand on the 12th of Ultio, in the year 601 AD.


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