On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 17:45 +0100, guenther wrote: > > I am trying to get a signature block script working in Evo2.0.1 under > > SuSE9.2 using Bash 3.00.1(1) (Evolution Menu > Tools > Settings: > > Evolution Settings window, Composer Preferences, Signatures tab, Add > > script button). > > > > What I am seeing is that when I apply the command "printf" in the script > > it doesn't pass the newline (\n) or linefeed (\f) options back to the > > signature block of Evo. Using the "echo" command shows the same traits. > > > > for example: > > printf "Hello \n\n World" > > > > shows... > > Hello World > > in the sig block not... > > Hello > > > > World > > > > Thanks for any help you can give. > > Script signatures are evaluated as HTML always, even if you are > composing text/plain mails. > > That means, you need to insert "<br>" instead of "\n".
The alternative is to switch off HTML using gconf-editor: apps->evolution->mail->signatures There, set 'format="text/plain"' for your specific signature. cheers, -- Hanspeter Kunz Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Ph.D. Student Department of Information Technology Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Zurich Tel: +41.(0)44.63-54306 Andreasstrasse 15, Office 2.12 http://ailab.ch/people/hkunz CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland Spamtraps: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Avoid cliches like the plague. They're a dime a dozen. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
