On Jul 20, 2010, at 3:07 AM, pdimage wrote:
On 20/7/10 07:16, "Wallace Adrian D'Alessio"
<fluxstrin...@gmail.com> wrote:
It is not about Mac G hardware or one step removed. It is a good
candidate for the Mac2Mac list or a list where people like to debate
what plain text is while sending in rich text somewhere
It is about display anomalies in relatively recent messages on
this list
which is supposed to be exclusively plain text - specifically those
that do
not display as plain text in the recipient's mail client to display
in a
width and font other than those set in the client's preferences. I
started
it by querying the format which overrides my prefs so I guess you
would call
it technical support. I didn't know that you could use rich text
for email -
only plain or html - I learn something new everyday.....but now I
need a new
client to do rich text.....I am not much wiser but I am content for
the
thread to pass away without mourners.
I believe that RTF is a relatively late development as sort of a
bridge between full blown type control and plain text. But like you,
it can pass on as some here just don't know a lot about typography.
OTOH, I understand exactly what Dan stated when he uses Lucida as a
display font but the actual output when mailed defaults to Courier
which is the plain text.
AFAIAC - As far as I am concerned (I left out an "A").
But I have an excuse... I'm old!
JT
Aaahh - right. Ditto - I'm an oldster too - 60 - I wonder what
the
average age of the list is? - I suppose low end mac is a little
long in the
tooth now...but that's perhaps chatting though I may plead the
lesser charge
of debating - and I think chatting is verboten on the list - brings
out the
bandwidth brownshirts with their upper case weapons and exclamation
mark
machine guns.....given that analogy I suppose an illuminated drop
cap would
be a nuke. Fatuous use of the font's capabilities rather then the
capabilities of the language in my opinion.
Heh... You're only a kid by my standards. Sometimes off topic,
(officially), still can share knowledge or at the least some general
information. I learn a lot of this list. I spent about thirty years
in and out of the publishing biz in addition to process,
(manufacturing), engineering, shipbuilding, aircraft structures,
cinematography/film editing, a little stint in the army and even a
year of technical support at Apple back in the 68xxx days just at the
transition to the Power PC. Now, I'm a mastere slacker who is seldom
up before 9am...
JT
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