Kip >i do not have any Apples so their MUA i cannot speak to it. i have found >though that line breaking occurs immediately, at posting time by the MUA. >Subsequent processing so far has turned up no filters beyond that. So a fix at >the beginning can be good forever ... Unless some future poster manages to >mangle my post;-). Boxing has long lines too, they can also be preserved with >a beginning >.
greg ~krsnadas.org -- from: Raul Miller <[email protected]> to: Chat forum <[email protected]> date: 29 March 2013 14:02 subject: Re: [Jchat] [Jbeta] mailing browser Boxed output looks wrong when displayed with a "proportional spaced font". >I have not used iPad's Mail program, but some programs do not offer a >"monospaced font". If you are using a program with this little control, I >think the only option is to copy the text into some other program. Many text >editors can give you a fixed-width font. -- from: km <[email protected]> via forums.jsoftware.com to: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> date: 29 March 2013 13:56 subject: Re: [Jchat] [Jbeta] mailing browser >Any help for the iPad's Mail program will be appreciated. I have found it >helps to put an extra space at the beginning of each line of copied J output; >but boxed output is never displayed correctly in the copy that comes back to >me. --Kip Murray Sent from my iPad -- from: greg heil <[email protected]> to: [email protected] date: 29 March 2013 13:40 subject: Re: [Jchat] [Jbeta] mailing browser Raul Thanks for finding that text-only item for me! >"Linewrapping" is different from line breaking. Linewrapping is ok for English >it is designed for that, and we see it all the time. But line breaking where >extra linefeeds are actively inserted at what are essentially random places is >devastating for code, and not good for English ether. i am glad i at least >have found a workaround (that turns line breaking into linewrapping), and i >hope others will use that too - to make their posts more intelligible to me:) -- from: Raul Miller <[email protected]> to: Chat forum <[email protected]> date: 29 March 2013 13:14 subject: Re: [Jchat] [Jbeta] mailing browser On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:56 PM, greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: >>On a side note Google began pushing yesterday another revision of their gMail >>MUA. There are some benefits, but unfortunately it has a major killer (at >>least for me) in that it does not allow the creation of text-only posts. All >>posts must be in their rich-text format and suffer the overhead of being >>duplicated in a text only form. >For what it's worth, I have composed my response using gmail's new editor. >There's a menu on the lower right, that lets you toggle into "plain text >mode". You can also expand the quoted text so that it can be editted. >Linewrapping, I performed manually, in an external editor. Linewrapping is >painful for code, but nice for english. FYI, --- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
