Thoughts from a newbie

[maney at pobox.com]

Delaney, Timothy <tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote:
> 2. 120 characters prints just fine in landscape mode, and just fine in
> portrait mode if you configure your editor right.

> Point 2 is the biggest sticking point, because it requires changing the
> defaults of your editor. I *personally* have my editor set to print at 120
> chars/line in portrait mode, but my main concern was for people who did not.

That's just wrong.  You shouldn't need to munge with editor settings
in order to get the printout right.  Sounds like a confusion of
responsibilities to me.  :-(

I use 'a2ps -1 -l 110 -T 4' - its formatting for -l 120 was just a bit
too small for my tastes.

> I've found that in general, when exceeding 80 chars, it tends to be because
> of:
> 
> 1. Function parameters (either calling or defining).
> 
> 2. Strings.

3. Strings passed to functions.  :-)