7. Look before you leap . . .717. Look before you leap . . .As you become familiar with Laurel, you will doubtless discover features that please you and"features" that annoy you. This section reports some of the annoying "features" other users haveencountered and, in some cases, what to do to get around them.Formatting messages for non-Laurel usersLaurel breaks lines in a transmitted message by a rather simple-minded algorithm. This may leadto line overflow when the message is read on certain terminals using MSG (or other mail systems).If you know that some of your recipients have this problem, you may wish to exercise care in theformatting of your outgoing messages. Use explicit CRs and keep your lines down to about 80%of the Laurel screen width. (A relatively painless way to do this is to compose the entire messagewithout using CRs, then just before delivery make a final pass over the message, substituting CRsfor spaces at appropriate points.)Shifted (and secondary) selection from the message display regionText in the message display region generally has real CRs in it. Laurel respects this formattinginformation, even when displayed text is copied into a composed message. When you insert textfrom a displayed message into the message composition region, you may discover that the realCRs break lines in the wrong places. If you don't like this, you will have to replace those explicitCRs by spaces after copying the text. The Substitute command (S (COM-S), section 4.4.10)provides a convenient method for doing this if a large number of CR's are involved.The Answer formThe form provided by the Answer command is not always exactly what you might want. Laureltakes the viewpoint that it is easier to delete than to add text, and therefore includes all theinformation that seems to be relevant. For example, Laurel often includes your name in the cc:field of the answer form, even though you may not want a copy of the message you arecomposing. You should not expect that the answer form will be exactly right; always examine theheader to be certain it contains the desired information.In particular, if you reply to a message that was directed to a distribution list, the Answercommand will copy the distribution list name into the cc: field of the answer form. You shouldconsider carefully whether or not it is appropriate for your reply to be sent to that distributionlist, and if not delete the distribution list name. (See also the discussion of Reply-To: fields insection 6)."/fpXFf g^q gZCp'5 gXx<% gV> gR"r( gNp8( gL6sp gKH gIPsp' gGB! gErpspNsp gC" g?drA g;p"sp) g:'? g8]N g6spZ g4sp t p s p g2Asp g.qr g*ptp; g)4O g'iI g%-' g#rp : g" 9 g-*t gp1. g'; g8T gm  g&=PLAUREL MANUAL72Space requirementsMany Laurel users find it convenient to designate a disk on which they will use Laurelexclusively. You will need about 700 disk pages to hold Laurel and a moderate-sized mail file.Some users, when converting from MSG to Laurel, have had a rude shock when they transferredtheir archival mail files from Maxc to their Alto disk. Recall that one Maxc disk page becomesfour Alto disk pages when a file is moved. This is another reason for dedicating an Alto disk tomail processing and filing, particularly if you maintain archival mail files.Hardcopy usageLaurel's Hardcopy command is intended for use in printing copies of isolated messages that youmay wish, for whatever reason, to obtain in hardcopy form. It is only suitable for obtaininghardcopy archives of all your messages, say, to put in your filing cabinet, if you print using the"Archive" hardcopy form (section 3.3.2). The other standard hardcopy forms, that print eachmessage on a separate page, are definitely unsuitable for hardcopy archives.If you do wish to maintain a hardcopy archive, and the "Archive" hardcopy form is not to yourtaste or itself produces too much paper, we recommend that you use Empress.run (or otherprinting programs) to print your mail file directly as continuous, unformatted text.Type-ahead and button-aheadLaurel directly senses the COM key (modeless editor only) and the SHIFT key for the SHIFT-BS andSHIFT-NEXT combinations (also modeless editor only) at the time that the command is performed.Thus type-ahead for these combinations is not supported. For normal text type-in, type-ahead issupported.Mouse button-ahead is not supported at all.Type-ahead is flushed on entry and exit from the Run command. Have patience at these times.$fpspXs gfp g_r g[pA gY*5 gVg"sp! gTW gRB gQM gL{r gI ptp1 gG?S gEt3/ gC< gAL g>mL g<> g:T g6Kr g2psp$sp sp g1s pT g/DI g-z g* rp g&1tp g&O=A TIMESROMAN  TIMESROMAN  TIMESROMAN  TIMESROMAN TIMESROMAN @ j/ #laurel6-7.bravoBrotzJuly 22, 1981 5:36 PM