How about highlighting the text and changing the formatting to "Preformat" instead of "Normal" for that part... works a treat :-)
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 14:32, Peter B. Steiger wrote: > Whenever I compose a reply, I have no end of grief getting the word > wrapping to work right on the quoted section. If the sender has a wider > margin than I have, the quoted section ends up looking like this: > > > blah blah blah ... 70 columns ... blah blah blah bl > > ah > > blah blah blah ... 70 columns ... blah blah blah bl > > ah > > ... with just the last word or two from one line wrapped around to a > second quoted line. I looked through the composer options and did not > see any way to have it give me wider margins. It looks like they are > fixed at 70 characters. > > It would also be nice if I could have it re-wrap long lines to fit the > margins. Often I cut-and-paste text from other messages or external > files, and again, if the line length in the external source is > 70, it > wraps the long line and still adds a linefeed to start the next line: > > This is my story 71 or more chars per line blah blah > blah > blah blah. Blah blah blah, 71 more characters, blah bl > ah. > Blah blah etc. > > Frustrating? You have no idea. If I have pasted in a 3 or 4 page block > of text, I have to manually go through and insert newlines at positions > that remove the short stub of text, or delete all newlines and let > Evolution do the wrapping for me. That's OK for a 5-line paragraph, but > make it 4 pages @ 55-60 lines per page, and we're talking about a > serious waste of time that could be better put to use playing TuxKart. > > Has anyone else found a way to work around this? I'm probably just > missing something obvious. > ------- > Peter B. Steiger > Cheyenne, WY > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
