Re: Paragraph wrapping in 3 column view

Tom Chirpich Sun, 04 Jul 2004 13:01:18 -0700

Title: Re: Paragraph wrapping in 3 column view

on 7/3/04 5:53 PM, Allen Watson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> The truncation you are seeing, I see also (now).

<snip>

> Furthermore, making it into an HTML message is tedious!
>
> To do it, I had to create an HTML document using an HTML editor (I used
> BBEdit, and all I needed was the basic document outline, <HTML><BODY> and so
> on; it probably could be done in TextEdit using a template for the HTML
> shell). Since I was quoting another message, I had to copy that text out of
> Entourage and paste it into BBEdit, and surround paragraphs with the
> appropriate HTML paragraph tags. Then, I created the script URL, first
> copying the script from Script Editor, then converting it using Apple's
> Encode_script script, and pasting the resulting <A HREF> tag into the HTML
> document, which I then saved.
>
> I then opened that document in WORD, which renders it much like a browser
> would because of the HTML tags it sees (I also named the file with a .html
> suffix). Using Word's File menu, I selected Send To Recipient as HTML; this
> created the actual message back in Entourage! Whew!

<snip>

> Just did a test, sending a message from Netscape's HTML mail. It also gets
> truncated! The original message definitely has the entire script in it, but
> what I receive in Entourage is cut off after maybe 3.5 lines. Not sure where
> the flaw is here. I'll bet that if I put a "load in script editor" URL up on
> a web page, it will work; this is some problem with long URLs and mail, I
> think.

Ouch!! I knew that it was hard, especially because it was the first time something is used - but I didn't expect that much work.

I don't know if this will help. I did something as you described:

> I'll bet that if I put a "load in script editor" URL up on
> a web page

I used Internet Explorer to get the Applescript page you mentioned as containing the "encode" script within it. I then used Paul's "Send Complex HTML X 2.0.1" script to send that page to myself.

As you predicted, the script on that page came through just fine in the email I sent to myself. I don't know much about HTML - way too many <...> tags that I don't understand - but I did "view source" of the received message and noted that the script appears twice - once truncated in the plain text part and once as a complete script in the html part shown below.

I have no idea how you would (easily) get an html file that would also generate two versions of the script – one truncated and one not.

This is what I saw with “view source” of the email with the script within it:

Content-type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary="B_3171794375_63649040"

<snip>

--B_3171794375_63649040
Content-type: text/plain;
 charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable

<snip>

The Encoding Script

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<applescript://com.apple.scripteditor?action=""> i
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20link%20text%3A%22%20button> for a script you can use to encode a script
copied to the clipboard. Save this script in your user Scripts folder to
have it available from the Script Menu.

<snip>

--B_3171794375_63649040
Content-type: text/html;
 charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>

<snip>

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nd%20encode_char%0D">here</a> for a script you can use to encode a script co=
pied to the clipboard. Save this script in your user Scripts folder to have =
it available from the Script Menu. 

<snip>

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