Thank you Patrick -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Callaghan Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 11:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Evolution] Message size threshold for download?
On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 09:46 -0700, FrankK wrote: [...] > kmail also has a preferred text editor option. It will invoke OOwriter, but > doesn't accept the formatted output. > > The feature set I use from the word processor is very limited, but addictive > to use. It may be simpler for an email client enhance its formatting > features rather than provide the interface to a word processor. > > For the record my formatting feature set includes: auto completion, > correction, capitalization, grammar as well as spelling check and paragraph > styles. Paragraph styles include fonts and line to line spacing. > > I don't have a good feel for the complexity involved with say paragraph > styles and grammar check. If these features were added to Evo for example, > would that make Evo a word processor? Heboland The trouble with all this is that means the people who receive your mail also have to be able to interpret it, and with some guarantee of seeing the same results. MS can do this by forcing everyone to use Outlook and Word (and those who don't are simply declared "non-standard"), but that's not feasible in an open environment. The existing Rich Text facilities may cover some of what you want (have you tried them?) but adding more and more functionality to the composer is a mug's game. Where does it all end? poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list Your point is well taken, Patrick. I could be wrong about this, but isn't HTML capable of transmitting formatted documents? Why not us it as the standard for formatted messages? For a long time I've used either HTML or text. Composing with outlook and word, in HTML, I see things like degree symbols displayed in mail received by email clients that are not capable of creating such symbols. Using a combination of an HTML thunderbird composer and OOwriter as a stand-alone editor, I can cut and paste from OO into the composer and send the formatted document as HTML. Sometimes a composer will complain about a formatted paste so there may be limit to HTML's capability. What I've seen is a warning to the effect symbols aren't included in Unicode-8 or some such. Am I correct about HTML? Heboland _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
