On 11/18/03 12:59 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In plain text, what you see is just a display font for you. It has nothing > to do with the information being sent. So if you type the keys for any > MacRoman character, that's the information that will be sent down the line. > In order that you can see what you're sending, Entourage finds a system font > that can display every MacRoman character - every character typable using > option key (with and without shift). It's doing you a favor. Thanks for the explanation, which makes perfect sense. I've been doing some experimenting and I've found some interesting anomalies though. They probably only pertain to Entourage 2001, however, and won't be of interest to anyone else ;-). When I take your suggestion from another post, copy and paste the Subject line into (in my case) Simple Text, the font does indeed show as Geneva � just as it does when I tab into the Subject line of the email itself and open PopChar (which, for anyone who isn't familiar with it, shows every character of the font you're currently using and displays the name of that font). However, as I said before, PopChar indicates my body text is Geneva also, even though I have it set to display as Arial. Now, if there were actually a font substitution, I would see the Apple symbol instead of a square, but I don't (so Entourage is not really doing me any favor � see below). When I switch my display font to Cairo, the same thing happens. I see Cairo in the dimmed font box (I don't find that confusing, by the way, nor irrelevant), I type Cairo in the message body (but the Subject line remains Geneva, as expected), and yet PopChar still reads the Cairo as Geneva. So ... either PopChar is wrong (possible, but I've never seen it make a mistake) or else when typing in the message body of a plain text email in Entourage (at least 2001), regardless of one's chosen display font, the system "reads" the font as Geneva. It would be interesting if someone out there who's using Entourage X and PopChar would check to see if the same thing happens. On 11/18/03 2:04 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's one thing that's odd. I don't have time to test at the moment, but > it seems that the people who are using a default plain text font which does > not display the apple get font substitution - and a spelling error - when > composing new messages, but don't get font substitution when reading > received messages that contain the Apple. They get a square or similar. Is > that correct? No. My comments misled you. Sorry. I am *not* getting font substitution, as I explained above. I didn't make it clear that what was telling me I was in Geneva was PopChar rather than some anachronistic Entourage 2001 toolbar. Nor do I get a spelling error when I type Shift-Option-K. All I get is an empty square indicating a non-existent character. Arkady was talking about so many aspects of the problem in his post that I confused the Spelling issue with the display issue. In other words, I do not have the same problem as he, so just about everything I have said on this thread is irrelevant to his situation :-). But this isn't (hopefully): The fact that Arkady sees the spelling error in Entourage, but not in Word, is very peculiar. They do use the same spelling apparatus and Custom Dictionary in Office X, right? And, as you've said, the fact that the symbol appears different to him in a compose window than in a received email is also very weird (providing that his is a strictly plain text environment). I also don't understand how he could throw out his Custom Dictionary and not have a new one replace it. That should be impossible. Hopefully, he'll put in an appearance soon and answer your question about plain text vs. HTML, among other things. Beth -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
