[Bulk] Re: Message formatting
[Martin Taylor 2007.02.13.15.06]
[From Bill Powers (2007.02.13.0910
MST)]Martin Taylor 2007.02.13.10.33]
[From Bruce Abbott (2007.02.12.1835 EST)]
Bill Powers (2007.02.12.0823 MST)
Bruce Abbott (2007.02.11.18:15 EST)
I don’t know how these messages look on your screens, but on mine,
they are a mixture of minuscule and microscopic typefaces, with
absolutely no indication of which section belongs with which original
message, no “>” “>>” etc indications, and
no way of knowing wheich bit is written by which author.I am using Eudora, under which the quoted sections above appear with
vertical lines down the left, one added vertical line for each
sub-quote. I see them now on my screen. A control->(shift period)
adds a vertical line, and a control-.(period) removes one.When I view your post using Eudora, I see only a single vertical line
with, as you say, no indication of sub-quotes. When the same message
is copied into a reply window, the vertical lines appear
properly.
I use Eudora 6.2.4, and they didn’t appear for me.
This suggests that the vertical lines are an HTML feature. Your post
does appear to be an HTML post, because the text is preceded by
0.00
HTML_MESSAGE
BODY: HTML included in message
That’s odd. I send from Eudora as well, always using Monaco 9pt
font.
My options are set up to “Send both
plain and styled text.” You may be set up to receive only
plain text, but send styled text. I don’t see any option like that in
my Eudora. You’ll have to look at your mail program.
I’ve the same sending option, and I had checked all the boxes for
receive except (like Richard) for the “Small size”. This
morning I unchecked “size” as well, but it didn’t change
anything. I’ve now unchecked “font”, and we’ll see what that
does. I do want to be able to send and see pictures in the mail, so I
don’t want to turn off all the stying features.
In Eudora, I can remove all special text
formatting (font size) in a reply by highlighting the section of text
and typing control-space.
A trick I didn’t know. I’ll have to try that.
I often have to do this with my own
replies because for some reason they pick up the formatting of text
that’s already there in the reply.
Yes, that’s what happens. I pretend to reply and then select all and
increase the font sizes, retaining the rest of the formatting.
Sometimes I do it with the received
message, too, when the font comes through in 4-point type. [But see PS
– maybe changing the message font has fixed that problem for me]Let me know how this looks to you. I can send some test messages with
different options if you like.
This looks perfectly normal (and did before I turned off the
“font” box. It displays in my “standard” Monaco
9pt.
P.S. I just changed my “message”
font to Times New Roman and now that is the font I see in your post.
Still no multiple vertical lines, though. Try changing your message
font and see if that has any effect. Mine had been set to
“SimSun”, a non-existent font on my machine. I just checked
a post from Bjorn, which has been full of small blue text, and now
it’s normal!
I’ll try a few things like that. Maybe something will work. I
only brought up the subject because, apart from Bjorn’s postings, most
have been acceptable (though sometimes rather small) until your recent
interchange with Bruce, which I really did want to read carefully, and
couldn’t without jumping through hoops.
Thanks for the hints.
Martin