Alan Yes mine too:-( it is the way of modern mail agents, at least mine, gMail. Is there another which lets you choose the font for viewing?
i have an audience that i send monospaced text too, poetry if you will, none of them ever receive it in a monospaced form. One would have to be in a HTML forum using Monospaced fonts for that to happen. Many fora, such as these, are text only as the 'attachments' can take up a lot of space and potentially be dangerous. greg ~krsnadas.org -- from Raul Miller <[email protected]> to Chat forum <[email protected]> date 12 January 2011 02:58 subject Re: [Jbeta] [Jchat] mailing browser On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Alan K. Stebbens <[email protected]> wrote: > For example, this ASCII table presents nicely only because I'm using a > monospace font on it. > ;:'now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country' > +---+--+---+----+---+---+----+---+--+----+--+---+---+--+-----+-------+ > |now|is|the|time|for|all|good|men|to|come|to|the|aid|of|their|country| > +---+--+---+----+---+---+----+---+--+----+--+---+---+--+-----+-------+ Interestingly enough, it was displayed using a proportional font, in my browser. -- Raul -- from Alan K. Stebbens <[email protected]> to Beta forum <[email protected]> cc Chat forum <[email protected]> date 11 January 2011 22:59 subject Re: [Jbeta] mailing browser On Jan 11, 2011, at 1:24 PM, greg heil wrote: > "watch out for line wraps"... almost a mantra on these fora;-) > Is there a way, perhaps using "mark down", to get around that? Generally it > seems most email client apps seem to mess up the writers intentions:-(( > Perhaps there is a way if only in our fora (not necessarily the wider word of > emailed communication) to move beyond that into at least a modicum of > formatting, without the heaviness of proprietary "solutions". Greg, Using HTML or RTF in your mail client should prevent the mailer from "messing up" the presentation. I use HTML all the time for tabular content so that I can use a monospace font on that content, even if the prose is my normal, variable width Verdana font. For example, this ASCII table presents nicely only because I'm using a monospace font on it. ;:'now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country' +---+--+---+----+---+---+----+---+--+----+--+---+---+--+-----+-------+ |now|is|the|time|for|all|good|men|to|come|to|the|aid|of|their|country| +---+--+---+----+---+---+----+---+--+----+--+---+---+--+-----+-------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
