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Re: Google groups (?) always breaks my code...

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg111898] Re: Google groups (?) always breaks my code...
• From: Ray Koopman <koopman at sfu.ca>
• Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:04:41 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <i48jjp$e6p$1@smc.vnet.net>

On Aug 15, 4:38 am, Simon <simonjty... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone else have the problem of code getting broken by
> "a -> b"
> being interpreted as a minus sign then quoted text?
> "a ->b"
>
> The most recent example was athttp://groups.google.com.au/group/comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica/msg/...
>
> Is this created by my accessing the newsgroup via groups.google or
> something else?
> Anyone got suggestions to fix this?
>
> Simon

The google groups posting interface wants original lines (not quoted
lines) to have no more than 70 characters. If a line is too long, it
will insert a hard CR at the last possible word break that will keep
the line length <= 70 characters. (Trailing spaces are eliminated.)
Your problem stems from the fact that it thinks hyphenated words can
be broken after the hyphen. The solution is to insert your own CRs.