>> Alex wrote: >> Same "text" messages sent to an E-mail box (as opposed to >> a(?) message board) are mangled beyond repair.
Bruce comments: > I think you are having a problem with what font is being used to display your message. With a fixed font, all characters are the same width. > ... > For my email, I read it in Biststream Vera Sans Mono. > ... Here we're converging. I don't know to what but we're definitely converging. First off. I'm a simple, _monospace_ guy. I have used Courier New all my life for anything technical (like code files, etc.) to display or to type on the console. It is the closest to the (tele)typewriter where everything started. Bjarne tried to change that in his seminal C++ book, but it didn't get him too far. All these names like Vera, Trebuchet, etc. in printing give me the DTs. As an aside, seems like all LFS Archives are shown in monospace for some reason (legibility, maybe?) I see you're a Gmailist so you can understand me: If in Text Mode, what you type or paste in the Compose box stays in some sort of proportional typeface. Not too pretty. In "Sent Mail" (which is more or less like a "loopback" mail) you can see what you just sent. Not necessarily pretty. If in RichFormatting+CourierNew, any technical stuff (by my above definition) can be seen in "Sent Mail" as pretty as it looked originally. And like I said, my idea of beauty appears to coincide exactly with that of Archives too. My only and only "puzzlement" has been that whatever I compose in Gmail in Text mode, although looking ugly to me before clicking the Send ends up beautiful and in my life-long preference (monospace) in Archives. OTOH, what looks pretty to me on Send (RichFormatting+CourierNew) as well adds on arrival an extra, to me unnecessary, section at the end of Archives. This should feel even worse when you think we have to cut as much waste as we can in these Austerity times. -- Alex -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
