Re: New issue of Lethaia (posted for B. Runnegar)

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Bruce Runnegar wrote:

>I thought you might like to see how the internet garbles your beautiful
>prose.

>> Lethaia 28:4 (the December issue - I told you we were catching up!) is no=
>> w
>> being printed and will appear shortly.

>> Ru=EDz Bustos, A.: Analysis of enamel-line length as a morphometric param=
>> eter
>> and its application to Quaternary arvicolids

etc.

It depends on how your system is set up. At least to me, Paleonet sent my
Lethaia posting in pristine condition.

The premature breaking of lines presumably depends on what line width your
system accepts (mine is set to 80 characters width, which is Eudora's
default and what our systems administrator recommended). The funny
sequence, =ED, in Ruiz Bustos' name stands for i with an acute accent, and
it is the MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) way of representing
high-ASCII (129-255) characters. I could have avoided it by disconnecting
"Quoted-Printable" in Eudora, which would have yielded him as Ru#z Bustos,
slightly more readable. (I could also have written his name with a plain
"i", but that would have meant capitulation to you Anglos with your
crippled alphabet.) Check if your system supports MIME, and a whole world
of wonderful exotic letters may open up to you!

Sorry for these technicalities - maybe Norm or someone can give some more
general and practical advice.

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