On 26 Feb 2026, at 17:37, Charlie Clark wrote:
On 26 Feb 2026, at 12:11, Martin S Taylor wrote:
I certainly don’t. Can you point to somewhere which explains it?
There used to be elegant discussions of the subject but they now seem
to be swamped by the marketeers' guff. The European Commission has
something to say on the subject, ironically it's in the form of a PDF.
E-mail should always be plain text, because that was how it was
developed and how many of the conventions that we've grown used to in
text communication, such as asterisks for **emphasis** or underlines
for __highlighting__ and even emojis, were developed. Add to these
replying below, selecting text to quote and threading. All great ideas
that have, more or less, had to be reinvented in everything that has
tried to replace e-mail.
Yes, I understand (and agree with) all of that. But we are where we are,
and I receive emails in every kind of format, and I like to quote bits
of them when I reply. What I don’t understand is how to format the
quoted bits. It would help if I understood Mailmate’s options such as
“Prefer plain text” and Theme for plain text emails is Apple Mail
(or whatever).
And the whole thing about Courier as **the** typeface for plain text
is absolute nonsense.
Agreed. I should have the choice what font to display text in. When I
display a message I’m composing (in Mailmate) and I’m working in
split pane (so that text appears on the left as plain text and on the
right as formatted in some way) is there a way of changing the font that
text on the right-hand side appears in? I see it always in Helvetica,
and it would be nice to have a choice.
Martin
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