On 3/10/01 9:13 AM, "Jan Martel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This came up from reading the thread on making text smaller and larger in
> notes, but I thought I'd change the topic line, because I was getting a bit
> far afield from that. Why is it that you can only format the text in a
> message if the message is in HTML? I have my default set to plain text,
> because I know what a pain it can be to receive HTML. But sometimes I'd like
> to use a smaller or larger text size in a reply. The E'rage Help helpfully
> explains that formatting text is possible only in HTML. I assume there isn't
> any way around this, but why is it so? I can go to Prefs and set my default
> font and size to whatever I want, why can't I change it for one message?
That's what plain text means, really: NO FORMATTING of any variety. It makes
no difference to the recipient how you set your default font and size:
that's only for you. The recipients will all see your plain text messages in
THEIR default font and size for plain text. If Entourage were to let you
change it for individual messages, it might well give you the false belief
(that you may already have) that it might make a difference to the
recipient, when it doesn't.
If you want to impose your own size and font on the recipient, that means
that you're formatting, and that means you need to use HTML. You can be as
conservative as you like in HTML - it doesn't _have_ to be super-fancy.
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Paul Berkowitz
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