>>> Hans said: >>>> What I would like to do is use a document created with OO as >>>> e-mail message. Or from my e-mail program trigger OO to write >>>> the message. But so that the pretty formatting is not lost.
I answered: >>> This is not really an OO issue, > Really? Really! >>> it's an email client issue that requires using an email client >>> capable of importing an rich text or more likely, an html >>> message - them embed it in the body of the message sent. > Didn't see the word 'import' anywhere in his request. Quite the contrary. That is correct. But - since he wants to use OO to create a formatted message (which he CAN do), and formatting requires the use of a format the email client (which OO does NOT include), any third party html or rtf email client used MUST have that import capability. Netmanage's ZMail (for example), which was included with the PIM (now freeware) EccoPro, contained a module called Spyder for creating enriched text message, which it handled natively. IOW, the paradigm I presented to Hans contains the capability he asked for. > It would require that OO.o interoperate closely with an email client > which supports rich text messages. >>>> I found out that when I send an e-mail from OO it gets sent >>>> as attachment, this is not what I want. > <snip> >>>> I'm sometimes using Linux with Thunderbird, but am sometimes >>>> forced to use WIndows with Outlook. >>> Both Firefox and Thunderbird are also available for Windows and so >>> is Seamonkey,... > True enough, but if he currently uses Windows / Word / Outlook to > achieve what he wants now then a switch to TB ( et al ) would simply > relegate his Windows environment to the same state of not meeting his > requirements as the Linux environment. >>> But that brings us back to the email client used for emailing the >>> html page, whether it was made by OO, Seamonkey's Composer, or any >>> other html editor. > Not really - that brings us back to a question of tools cooperating > together to produce a desired result. Yes, that is why people still use Windoze - for the thousands of 3rd party apps created for it. It's their inter-operability that sustains Windoze. > <snip> >> Perhaps the simplest solution is to use copy/paste . > Doesn't really work all that well unfortunately - it does bring over > some formatting information however. Once again, providing that the enriched text editor used for email is able to interpret the code imported (OR pasted or dragged) into it. > The fact is both OO.o and Thunderbird ( and most other clients ) already > support all the functionality needed to do this - less one crucial piece > - neither side knows how to work intimately with the other - for one to > to call on the services of the other in other words. That is precisely why html and rtf protocols were created. Any email client used must adhere to the W3C.org 's standards. > @Douglas - The bottom line in regards to your question then is - NO, you > can't do that with OO.o no matter which email client you use. Hans wants to use OO to create a rtf or html formatted document - which IS something he CAN do. My Windoze email client (The Bat! - TB! not TB) allows me to easily format plain text in many ways and the newer versions allow the use of an external html editor, which could conceivably accomplish what Hans desires <www.ritlabs.com/>, should he care to check it out. TB! is shareware, not opensource nor freeware, however. IAC, I am NOT about to recommend used M$'s LookOut to anyone, now or ever. -- Douglas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
