Hi Lisa: You mentioned wanting the ability for a sighted person to quickly print your email if he desired. If you paste your file into an email, formatting will be changed as it is translated. For instance, in very long paragraphs, there will most likely be a line break, oftentimes in the middle of a word, with a random exclamation marking the word break. Using an attachment would preserve formatting and allow the recipient to print exactly as you wish.
If you do opt for attachments, I'd recommend using the rtf file type, as it is smaller than a word file and preserves file formatting. Dean, you mentioned that ascii files would be translated perfectly. I would like to know why, then, in my experience and many others, ascii files are translated as one gihugamongous line in the file, with all formatting stripped. HTH, Laura >------ original message ------ >from: Lisa Ehlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [Braillenote] inserting files into emails more questions >Hi Listers, >Okay I was hoping to avoid sending the email as attachments. In this day and >age I detest receiving attachments myself because of the viruses out there >(not that the BN can really get any viruses) but I'm just uncomfortable >sending these files as attachments. I know how to use the block commands to >insert the files into emails. If I pasted the information into emails would >there really be a difference of that versus inserting the file into the >emails? I almost feel like either send the files as attachments or snail mail >is my best option. >I'c open to suggestions. If attachments is the best thing then okay I'll just >put them on disk and snail mail which to me creates more work for the people >I'm sending them to. >Would there be translation issues with the files if they were sent as inserted >files into the emails? Im willing to try different formatting techniques. >Thanks for your help and your time. >Lisa
