Let me show you an example. Here’s my original post with all the line breaks taken out. It comes out smoothly.
The chances are that you are hitting the “enter” key when you get near the edge of the message entry window. (Which looks a lot like the one I’m typing in now. You should only hit “enter” when you must have a line break no matter how wide the window the viewer is reading your message in. E.g., to start a new paragraph, to sep. items in a bullet list, etc. It’s an idiot computer, let it figure out how to do word wrap! I taught Computer Literacy many times and this is one of the hardest things to get newbies to understand: If you don’t want a line break there then don’t hit “enter” there.
Same text, but with deliberate "enter"s added on to each line as they appear in the reply window. The text still looks nice if your window is wider than my reply window, just some unused space off to the left.
The chances are that you are hitting the “enter” key when you get near the edge
of the message entry window. (Which looks a lot like the one I’m typing in now.
You should only hit “enter” when you must have a line break no matter how wide
the window the viewer is reading your message in. E.g., to start a new
paragraph, to sep. items in a bullet list, etc. It’s an idiot computer, let it figure out
how to do word wrap! I taught Computer Literacy many times and this is one of
the hardest things to get newbies to understand: If you don’t want a line break
there then don’t hit “enter” there.
Now, here’s where you get weird stuff. Same text, but some lines have “enter” on the end and some don’t. Things should look quite erratic. (Again, depends on your window size.)
The chances are that you are hitting the “enter” key when you get near the edge of the message entry window. (Which looks a lot like the one I’m typing in now.
You should only hit “enter” when you must have a line break no matter how wide the window the viewer is reading your message in. E.g., to start a new
paragraph, to sep. items in a bullet list, etc. It’s an idiot computer, let it figure out
how to do word wrap! I taught Computer Literacy many times and this is one of the hardest things to get newbies to understand: If you don’t want a line break
there then don’t hit “enter” there.
I really do think this is it. (Unless you are cutting and pasting the message from another application, so it’s still the same effect and reasoning.)
Like I said, I taught a lot of novice CS and non-CS majors over the years. What people think they type and what they really type are never quite the same. (Even for me from time to time.)