[Muly, sorry for hijacking your thread, but it's becoming interesting...] On Monday 19 October 2015 10:39:00 Baruch Siach wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:21:43AM +0300, Oron Peled wrote: > > /On Sunday 18 October 2015 23:31:56 Diego Iastrubni wrote:/ > > /> Muli,/ > > /> / > > /> How did you set up your image in color...?/ > > Speaking of email clients I must say that the quoting style in the plain-text > version of your email is quite strange. A '/' character appears at the start > and end of each quoted line. Should I interpret this as italic style?
Sending HTML mail to this list was an accident, but you found something interesting. Here are the details: * Sometime I communicate with corporate users and in the beginning I used the same text/plain format as always. * However, unlike modern mail clients, their mail clients display quoted and unquoted text exactly the same (yes, Outlook. I'm looking at you). * The result is that it's very hard for them to read a mix of quoted/unquoted text. Which explains why top-posting is so common among users of that legacy mail client :-( * As a workaround, I started sending them HTML mail and apply a different visual style to the quoted text before mixing my reply text. The style I used was: green text (as in kmail), small font and ITALICS. This way they get a reasonable rendering of the intermixed text. * As Baruch just observed, in the text/plain version, kmail convert the italics to: /text-text-text/ Conclusions: * Re-check non-HTML mail before sending (IIRC, kmail used to have non-HTML/HTML settings per-corespondent or per-folder -- but maybe I'm wrong). * When replying to corporate users, don't mark the quoted text with italics, only with color+size, so the visual rendering of text/plain would be more consistent with text/html. Thanks for the heads-up, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron "If it's not source, it's not software." -- www.gnu.org _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux