All, Google Chrome has an add-on that correctly puts a mono-spaced font in all text Gmail emails. It is unsurprisingly called: "Fixed Width Text for Gmail™"
Below is a copy of a session from J 6.02, copy and pasted directly into Gmail, in a Chrome browser. < each 3 3 $ i.9 ┌───┬───┬───┐ │┌─┐│┌─┐│┌─┐│ ││0│││1│││2││ │└─┘│└─┘│└─┘│ ├───┼───┼───┤ │┌─┐│┌─┐│┌─┐│ ││3│││4│││5││ │└─┘│└─┘│└─┘│ ├───┼───┼───┤ │┌─┐│┌─┐│┌─┐│ ││6│││7│││8││ │└─┘│└─┘│└─┘│ └───┴───┴───┘ If the boxes don't look right and you have a Gmail account, use Chrome browser and install the add-on. Works great. Skip On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Boxed output looks wrong when displayed with a "proportional spaced font". > > I have not used iPad's Mail program, but some programs do not offer a > "monospaced font". If you are using a program with this little > control, I think the only option is to copy the text into some other > program. Many text editors can give you a fixed-width font. > > -- > Raul > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:56 PM, km <[email protected]> wrote: >> Any help for the iPad's Mail program will be appreciated. I have found it >> helps to put an extra space at the beginning of each line of copied J >> output; but boxed output is never displayed correctly in the copy that comes >> back to me. --Kip Murray >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> >> On Mar 29, 2013, at 3:40 PM, greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Raul >>> >>> Thanks for finding that text-only item for me! >>> >>>> "Linewrapping" is different from line breaking. Linewrapping is ok for >>>> English it is designed for that, and we see it all the time. But line >>>> breaking where extra linefeeds are actively inserted at what are >>>> essentially random places is devastating for code, and not good for >>>> English ether. i am glad i at least have found a workaround (that turns >>>> line breaking into linewrapping), and i hope others will use that too - to >>>> make their posts more intelligible to me:) >>> >>> from: Raul Miller <[email protected]> >>> to: Chat forum <[email protected]> >>> date: 29 March 2013 13:14 >>> subject: Re: [Jchat] [Jbeta] mailing browser >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:56 PM, greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>>> On a side note Google began pushing yesterday another revision of their >>>>> gMail MUA. There are some benefits, but unfortunately it has a major >>>>> killer (at least for me) in that it does not allow the creation of >>>>> text-only posts. All posts must be in their rich-text format and suffer >>>>> the overhead of being duplicated in a text only form. >>> >>>> For what it's worth, I have composed my response using gmail's new editor. >>> >>>> There's a menu on the lower right, that lets you toggle into "plain text >>>> mode". You can also expand the quoted text so that it can be editted. >>> >>>> Linewrapping, I performed manually, in an external editor. Linewrapping is >>>> painful for code, but nice for english. >>> >>> FYI, >>> >>> -- >>> Raul >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- Skip Cave Cave Consulting LLC Phone: 214-460-4861 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
