# wrapping doesn’t affect one-liners - :text: Patches are like Free Software love letters. :wrapped: Patches are like Free Software love letters. # meta info is right-aligned on its own line - :text: I have a fever and it’s not disco related. :meta: opi :wrapped: |- I have a fever and it’s not disco related. [opi] # more-than-80-column signatures are be wrapped, with the result being as short as possible - :text: It may look like I’m just sitting here doing nothing. But I’m really actively waiting for all my problems to go away. :wrapped: |- It may look like I’m just sitting here doing nothing. But I’m really actively waiting for all my problems to go away. # meta info is right-aligned to the longest line - :text: No, no, it’s spelled Raymond Luxury Yacht, but it’s pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove. :meta: Monty Python :wrapped: |- No, no, it’s spelled Raymond Luxury Yacht, but it’s pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove. [Monty Python] # multi-line signatures are wrapped on a line-by-line basis - :text: |- ‘The Ruby community should proceed with all deliberate speed towards ISO standardization of the language.’ ‘Yeah, look what it did to Forth.’ ‘Don’t just say it, show it. ’ :meta: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, Matt Lawrence, Gregory Brown, ruby-talk :wrapped: |- ‘The Ruby community should proceed with all deliberate speed towards ISO standardization of the language.’ ‘Yeah, look what it did to Forth.’ ‘Don’t just say it, show it. ’ [M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, Matt Lawrence, Gregory Brown, ruby-talk] # long meta info is flushed left - :text: |- ‘The Guardian also had a pre-election column, in which an allegedly “ironic joke” was open to other interpretations: “John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr., where are you now that we need you?” They removed the column from on-line access and apologized.’ ‘They should have. Hinckley missed the vital spot, so who needs him?’ ‘As everybody knows, Reagan was killed in that attack and a lookalike was substituted.’ ‘You mean we were governed all those years by an ACTOR!’ :meta: Spehro Pefhany, CyberCypher, Jess Askin, don groves, alt.usage.english :wrapped: |- ‘The Guardian also had a pre-election column, in which an allegedly “ironic joke” was open to other interpretations: “John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr., where are you now that we need you?” They removed the column from on-line access and apologized.’ ‘They should have. Hinckley missed the vital spot, so who needs him?’ ‘As everybody knows, Reagan was killed in that attack and a lookalike was substituted.’ ‘You mean we were governed all those years by an ACTOR!’ [Spehro Pefhany, CyberCypher, Jess Askin, don groves, alt.usage.english] # wrapping doesn’t left one-letter words at the end of lines - :text: I’ve been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn’t require my presence. :meta: Gary Trudeau :wrapped: |- I’ve been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn’t require my presence. [Gary Trudeau] # there are no hangouts - :text: Better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. And if he can’t be bothered to learn to fish and starves to death, that’s a good enough outcome for me. :meta: Steve VanDevender :wrapped: |- Better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. And if he can’t be bothered to learn to fish and starves to death, that’s a good enough outcome for me. [Steve VanDevender] # for two-line signatures, first line is considered for hangouts - :text: Well, the old ones go mmmmmbbbbzzzzttteeeeeep as they start up and the new ones go whupwhupwhupwhooopwhooooopwhooooooommmmmmmmmm. :meta: Graham Reed on subway engines, asr :wrapped: |- Well, the old ones go mmmmmbbbbzzzzttteeeeeep as they start up and the new ones go whupwhupwhupwhooopwhooooopwhooooooommmmmmmmmm. [Graham Reed on subway engines, asr]