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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.sources
Subject: rn(1) readers: fix followup ugliness!
Message-ID: <2604@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 21:33:45 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 19 21:33:45 1986
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Reply-To: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
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I have found the follow-up format that rn
uses for formating included articles rather messy looking.
A heading line is followed directly by the included text,
and the ">"'s at the beginnings of lines are inserted with
no following space!  It looks very crowded.

There are two easy simple things you can do to fix this for
your postings:

	[1] Include a newline in the ATTRIBUTION envirionment variable.
	    The "corrected" default would be:

		ATTRIBUTION="In article %i %f writes:\n"

	    (This is what I use).

	[2] Include the following line in your .rninit file:

		-F"> "

	    This redefines the indenting pattern to include a space
	    after the '>'.  (The same text can be included on
	    the rn command line).

This will make reading included articles in followups easier
by making the text more airly, less crowded.  (And, of course,
include only needed text in the followup).

A better solution would be to change the defaults in common.h
(for "indstr" and "ATTRIBUTION") if you have access to it,
but these instructions at least allows concerned users to change it
for themselves.  (amdahl readers: rn has been changed here)
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs}!amdahl!gam