I think its basically because evolution's editor always processes mail as html. Its just easier that way, because you can represent any plain text in html, but not the other way around.
You just have to wrap progs like fortune with a script that adds a <pre> block. On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 09:53, Greg Macek wrote: > In search of trying to understand why text wasn't being properly wrapped > from a script, I accidentally came upon an email saying that signatures > need to be formatted as HTML. Can someone explain why it is that way? > I've gotten it work, but when trying to take input from other programs > in that script the text is not formatted properly. This was noted by > using the "fortune" program. Some of its saying are preformatted but > when they are used as part of the sig any line breaks are lost. Just > curious. Look forward to understanding how the signatures work. Thanks. > > - Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
