> To start off, something completely different. Old FORTRAN programmers All the files in the latex distribution are checked for the 72 character limit as part of the Makefile that makes up the distribution. (A few files have longer lines for one reason or another.) This was more important when unencoded mail was a major distribution method. These days ftp/http, cdrom or just better mail gateways mean that it is probably not so important, although we do still check the files. Apart from distribution problems, long lines of code are harder to read. David