:-)
thanks
actually also the >>>
>> is quite okay, but not all replies get that (01)
cheers
P (02)
On Jan 20, 2008 1:01 PM, Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 11:35 AM +0700 1/20/08, paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >Whats the answer to the question 'how did you do the pretty indent with a
>line
> >or two or three according to the sequence of the snipped being quoted?
>
> Almost any email handler which works with html
> will do this, which is why the discussion so
> rapidly turned into a debate about the pros and
> cons of html vs. plaintext. There are actually
> several kinds of such indenting. The oldest looks
> like this, using > as an indent character:
>
> Pat wrote:
> >Paola wrote:
> >>>...What was the name of the app?
> >>did anyone answer?
> No.
>
> Several mail apps do this. Eudora uses x-flowed
> text, which uses a very simple html markup to
> indicate nested levels, and displays them with
> vertical lines at the left-hand edge to indicate
> the nesting. Imitating this in plain text, its
> something like this:
>
> Pat wrote:
> |Paola wrote:
> |||...What was the name of the app?
> ||did anyone answer?
> No.
>
> though it actually looks better as the lines are continuous.
>
> Thunderbird uses a similar display but also
> changes the text color with each indenting level,
> which I personally find distracting.
>
> So there is no single answer; and as there are no
> real standards in this area, there is no
> guarantee that what looks good on your screen
> will also look good (let alone identical) on my
> screen, which is why some folk are so attached to
> plain text, which for all its limitations is more
> likely to be consistent between mailers and
> readable by most everyone.
>
> Pat
>
>
> >that q started this thread off, and I have not seen the answer (sorry
> >if I missed it)
> >cheers
> >PDM
> >
> >
> >> I used Eudora for many years, and I don't recall having a problem
> >> getting it to wrap message body text.
> >>
> >>
> >> How did you do it?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> All of us have a lot of email traffic to attend to, and to set one's
> >> general preferences to plaintext-only would be suicide in the current
> >> world of general email.
> >>
> >> I don't understand this. Just because someone sends you HTML messages
> >> does not require you to reply in kind.
> >>
> >> Of course not, but I often (very often) wish to use html in email. I
> >> routinely embed images in email, for example.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The real problem is that either the defaults in MUAs such as Eudora and
> >> Outlook are extremely poorly chosen, or people deliberately configure
> >> them to produce heinous messages. If most people had even a little
> >> sense of what constitutes good typographic design, everything would be
> >> fine, but well chosen sizes, layouts and colors are the exception, not
> >> the rule. The messages on this list are not an exception, either.
> >>
> >> But to go from this to banning html altogether is like saying that
>because
> >> there are bad drivers, cars should be illegal.
> >>
> >> But let us not start an email-format flame war. After Peter's last
>message
> >> I'm trying out Thunderbird, maybe I'll be able to get used to it. However,
> >> AFAIKS, it has no provision for making the composing format sensitive to
>the
> >> particular message. If anyone can explain to me how to do it (off-list),
>I'd
> >> be grateful.
> >>
> >> Pat
> >>
> >> Pat
> >>
> >>
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