Hello Urban,
I've tried to rename the subject to reflect the evolution of the thread. :)
Wednesday, June 9, 2004, 1:44:08 PM, Urban wrote:
U> In a plain text message the links just "are", there's no need
U> to indicate that it's a link. In HTML, on the other hand, you have to
U> say that what you mean to be a link really is a link.
>> That's where my unclickable links were showing. I 'spoke' to Allie
>> about this and he was not seeing the same thing I was reporting about
>> this.
U> Your link showed fine here, and the only way I could manage to make it
U> unshowable was to use the HTML-editor and send a non-linked URL. So I am
U> as baffled as anyone else as to the reason why it acts as it does.
I have decided to continue to use the old reliable MicroEd.
>> I had not realized that the other editors did not wrap the text the
>> way I created it, wrapping to the window instead.
U> Maybe it's a wrapping thing. Have you tried to shorten it trough
U> something like http://www.makeashorterlink.com ?
No. I didn't mean needing to shorten the link. The wrapping I meant was that of the
lines of text. They are wrapped to the window in html pages so if you resize the
window the text fills the available space. Shortening the link was not the problem for
me (this time, anyway!) but thank you for that web page. 8-)
The issue seemed to be my typing in or cutpasting a link where moving the cursor over
it did not show it as a live link, athough it began with the http... nor did it show
as blue which color links are in my defaults.
For this email I have changed to the Plain Text editor (Windows proportional). I am
going to type an address for the first example, then paste a copied address to show
you what I mean.
Here is a typed-in address:
http://www.swan.ac.uk/classics/staff/ter/grst/big.htm
Here is a copy and pasted address:
http://anzwers.org/free/universe/
On my screen these links do not show as live/clickable. As I mentioned, the Message
Format is Plain Text Windows. If I were in the HTML Editor I would have copied the
link, then pasted it into the Add Hyperlink button on the toolbar or simply typed it
in to the special window Fm_UrlLink (what an interesting name, what could it mean?)
There is no button bar in Plain Text Windows. Under the Edit Mail Message window, in
the Edit dropdown, they maybe could put in a Paste As Hyperlink...
So the unsolved question of how do I make the links clickable, is one reason I'm back
to MicroEd. The other reason is the textwrapping Allie told me about.
It would be great to see some discussion in The Bat! Help about the 'consequences'
(for lack of a better word seniormoment) of using the different settings in the
Options|Preferences|Editor/Viewer and perhaps even some hints for the untutored about
not using the html editor when sending messages to mailing lists.
This original thread talked about the Help error message. If RitLabs is still updating
the help, now might be a good window of opportunity for them to include this. 8-)
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Warm regards,
Maggie
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