Re: Mail - bullet points and ruler

2009-10-12 Thread David Moyle
Evening Peter, I'd like to add my couple of cents worth on the whole topic though in addition to yours. I support the use of HTML in e-mails and I fully support the benefits. (The fact people still use text only e-mail readers amazes me but thats a whole new discussion!) What irks me is

Re: Mail - bullet points and ruler

2009-10-12 Thread Lara
David Moyle moyla...@westnet.com.au wrote: I support the use of HTML in e-mails and I fully support the benefits. What benefits? (The fact people still use text only e-mail readers amazes me but thats a whole new discussion!) It's basic common sense. As well as being more accessible and

Re: Mail - bullet points and ruler

2009-10-11 Thread John Daniels
Hi Steven Why does your friend compose his stuff in an email program? The normal way i would have thought was to compose in a word processing program using all the formatting available there and then add it to the email as an attachment. Cheers John On 11/10/2009, at 5:29 AM, David

Re: Mail - bullet points and ruler

2009-10-11 Thread Steven Knowles
I haven't asked that question of him John. I've never had call to user a ruler in email myself, but each to their own I guess. However if Outlook has a ruler feature, there are presumably reasons for it. I've looked in Entourage and can't see a ruler feature. So back to the original

Re: Mail - bullet points and ruler

2009-10-11 Thread David Moyle
Afternoon, Don't want to sound like I'm harping on but I pose the question why the user requires a ruler if there is no function/point? If the user is using it to help layout an email unfortunately it won't make a difference to the end user. Maybe some education on email standards and

Re: Mail - bullet points and ruler

2009-10-11 Thread Steven Knowles
Thanks David. Maybe a ruler makes him feel better? :-) I'll take your comments on board and have another chat with him. I can maybe show him a couple of sample outputs and demo no difference. Cheers, Steven On 11/10/2009, at 1:50 PM, David Moyle wrote: Afternoon, Don't want to sound

Re: Mail - bullet points and ruler

2009-10-11 Thread Lara
Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: I'm trying to convince a friend of mine to stay with Apple's Mail as a mail client, however there are two problems with Mail in his eyes. One is bullet points which don't seem to appear as bullet points at the recipient end (I've experienced

Re: Mail - bullet points and ruler

2009-10-11 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 10/10/2009, at 11:15 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I'm trying to convince a friend of mine to stay with Apple's Mail as a mail client, however there are two problems with Mail in his eyes. One is bullet points which don't seem to appear as bullet points at the recipient end (I've

Mail - bullet points and ruler

2009-10-10 Thread Steven Knowles
I'm trying to convince a friend of mine to stay with Apple's Mail as a mail client, however there are two problems with Mail in his eyes. One is bullet points which don't seem to appear as bullet points at the recipient end (I've experienced that as well). The other is the absence of a

Re: Mail - bullet points and ruler

2009-10-10 Thread David Moyle
Evening. :) Could you clarify what the bullet point issue is? Ignore maybe my ignorance, but why do you require a ruler to create an e-mail message? Since it is a dynamic layout system it will 90% of the time look different on other computers anyway? Cheers, David Moyle Systems

Re: Mail - bullet points and ruler

2009-10-10 Thread Steven Knowles
Good questions! The bullet point issue might be solved. When this friend of mine highlighted a list of points, and then followed Format Lists Insert Bulleted Lists, a bullet point list wasn't created. I'd always found bullet points in Mail to be not friendly to work with, so that

Re: Mail - bullet points and ruler

2009-10-10 Thread David Moyle
Morning! That will be great if the bullet point issue is fixes! I'd be interested to hear why he does need a ruler, I'm sure there is one! Cheers, David On 11/10/2009, at 0:41, Steven Knowles emai...@knowles.net.au wrote: Good questions! The bullet point issue might be solved. When