Re: question on line styles sening E-mail (Eureka!)

[Steve Lamb]

Tuesday, November 23, 1999, 2:59:46 PM, Ali wrote:
> it is more difficult than it should be, and one can't really do
> anything about bad formatting in that situation.

Sure.  Bitch to the person who sent it.

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Re: question on line styles sening E-mail (Eureka!)

[Ali Martin]

   Steve Lamb wrote:

> Monday, November 22, 1999, 4:42:14 PM, Paula wrote:
>> On Monday, November 22, 1999, Ali Martin wrote:

>>> All, that I said earlier stands, in that, a badly formatted message will be
>>> badly formatted when you get it and you can't really make it look any
>>> better.

>> Yes, no matter what, some messages always have stumps.

> That is what the justification commands are for. It can reformat
> quotes. I use it quite liberally.

I agree that replying is no problem. I can easily tidy things up.

We're, however, actually speaking about reading the message itself
before replying. If a message received is badly formatted, then reading
it is more difficult than it should be, and one can't really do
anything about bad formatting in that situation.

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Re: question on line styles sening E-mail (Eureka!)

[Steve Lamb]

Monday, November 22, 1999, 4:42:14 PM, Paula wrote:
> On Monday, November 22, 1999, Ali Martin wrote:

>> All, that I said earlier stands, in that, a badly formatted message will be
>> badly formatted when you get it and you can't really make it look any
>> better.

> Yes, no matter what, some messages always have stumps.

That is what the justification commands are for.  It can reformat quotes.
I use it quite liberally.

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Re: question on line styles sening E-mail (Eureka!)

[Ali Martin]

   Thomas Fernandez wrote:

AM> NB// Alt+L will not work if the cursor is positioned in the
AM> text block area with the mouse. You have to position it with
AM> the keyboard.

> That's not quite correct. I always position the cursor with the
> mouse. I have noticed that sometimes - not always - it doesn't work
> if the cursor in the first or last line of the paragraph, so I now
> eroutinely position it in the last-but-one line. With the mouse.

Well, I just tried it, wondering if they had fixed the problem, and it
still doesn't work. If you position the cursor with the mouse and go
straight to Alt+L, the left justify isn't properly done. You have to
give at least one keyboard input (I usually just hit one of the arrow
buttons) before using the shortcut.

PJFS>> Are you ready for this? I checked everything and my fonts was
PJFS>> set for courier new size 12, as soon as I set it to size 10
PJFS>> everything is fine, as soon as you change the font size the
PJFS>> messages get truncated.

> I jsut checked this out. I always use Courier New 10, so I just
> switched to 12. No problems here.

The width of his message view window is the problem. It was too small.
Switching to a smaller font allowed more characters per line causing
the wrap effect not to occur which was messing up his formatting.

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Re: question on line styles sening E-mail (Eureka!)

[Paula Ford]

On Tuesday, November 23, 1999, Pasquale J. Festa Sr. wrote:

> Hmm still happens to me, does monitor size have a connection, I
> basicly have a 9 inch viewing screen.

Monitor size has a connection only to the extent that it limits how wide
you can make the display panes. Try this: Double-click on a message to
open it in the Folder View. Maximize that window, then click on the Next
Message icon to refresh the display to see if the messages wrap
correctly. Try a few messages, because some messages always have stumps
no matter what you do. If most of your messages still wrap awkwardly,
then you will need to make your font size smaller.

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Re: question on line styles sening E-mail (Eureka!)

[Paula Ford]

On Monday, November 22, 1999, Ali Martin wrote:

> All, that I said earlier stands, in that, a badly formatted message
> will be badly formatted when you get it and you can't really make it
> look any better.

Yes, no matter what, some messages always have stumps.

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Re: question on line styles sening E-mail (Eureka!)

[Paula Ford]

On Monday, November 22, 1999, Pasquale J. Festa Sr. wrote:

> Are you ready for this? I checked everything and my fonts was set for
> courier new size 12, as soon as I set it to size 10 everything is
> fine, as soon as you change the font size the messages get truncated.

That's not because of the font size per se. It's because with a larger
font size you need to make the display pane wider. :)

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Re: question on line styles sening E-mail (Eureka!)

[Ali Martin]

   Pasquale J. Festa Sr. wrote:

 
> Are  you ready for this? I checked everything and my fonts was set for
> courier  new  size  12,  as  soon as I set it to size 10 everything is
> fine, as soon as you change the font size the messages get truncated.

I realized what the problem was when you included my messages among
those that are truncated.  Changing your font to a smaller one would
have the same effect as increasing the width of the message body view
window, in that more characters may be displayed per line.

All, that I said earlier stands, in that, a badly formatted message
will be badly formatted when you get it and you can't really make it
look any better.


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