The email program Brady was talking about is the thing that looks like a postage stamp with a bird on it. You can read email in it and in order to reply you tap reply-to and then the leftwards pointing arrow with the double above it, not the single. Then you get an email message with an address etc. It might help the free verse problem . Kate Sullivan (to send tap the airplane in the top left hand corner.) On Dec 22, 2012, at 4:56 PM, William Conger wrote:
> Yes, my copy of what I sent to Michael, belowm is screwed up even though it > looked fine when I typed it. > wc > > > > ________________________________ > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, December 22, 2012 3:46:13 PM > Subject: Re: sorry > > It looks fine on my screen and moreover making the screen narrower in > order to screw up the lines didn't work. > K > > -----Original Message----- > From: William Conger <[email protected]> > To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> > Sent: Sat, Dec 22, 2012 4:35 pm > Subject: Re: sorry > > Thanks, Michael. > > I have my Safari window as big as it can be by using the lower right > guide. > Always did. > > The text I have received from you, below, ends about halfway across the > screen > but all is in order, not broken into lines and paragraphs unrelated to > the text > ordering. > > This stuff drives me nuts. It reveals how far behind I am and how > poorly > adapted I am to this century, or even the last quarter of the previous > century. > I can, however, drive a 40s car with stick shift very easily. I can > also do > other things that the world has forgotten to do. But I will never be > up to date > with doo-dad technology. > > Now I wonder how this post appears on your screen. > > WC > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Michael Brady <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, December 22, 2012 3:16:27 PM > Subject: Re: sorry > > William > >> I use Safari on a Mac-Brook Pro >> >> I don't quite undertand the rest of the advice. > > You can make the Safari window narrower by dragging the bottom right > corner to > the left, or you can make it wider by dragging the corner to the right. > > If you make a window narrower, the lines of text also will be narrower > and the > words at the end will be "pushed" down to the next line so that all the > text > can still be seen on screen. If you make the window wider, that will > increase > the width of the lines and words from lower lines will be "pulled back" > to the > preceding line, so that the text fills out the column without a large > area of > white space on the right margin. This is referred to as "text > wrapping," which > means that the text moves forward or backward as you resize the window. > > If you look at a web page on your machine with a narrow window and I > look at > the same page on my computer with a wider window, the lines will break > at > different points because on your computer the lines are narrower than > on mine. > This produces the same results as changing the window on your computer. > The > text fills out the available space and wraps to the next line without > bad line > breaks. > > When you send an email message to the Aesthetics list, the text on your > screen > "wraps" to the width of the space in the email message window. The > automatic > process used by the list computers that receive your message and then > resend > it back to the rest of us inserts a line break at the end of each line > of > text. When we receive the message, the lines will wrap on screen but > then the > second line will end at the place where the list's computer inserted a > line > break. Thus the end of the line will be on the second line and will > look like > "free verse." > > > > "I trust I make myself obscure?" > "Perfectly, Thomas." > --A Man for All Seasons > > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | > Michael Brady
