The sigs are taken as HTML (i believe)... the easiest solution is just to use the "<pre>" and "</pre>" tags to put the text between.
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 10:38, Dwight Tovey wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 15:43, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 09:27, David McNab wrote: > > > To the folks who added the 'script-generated signatures' feature to > > > Evolution - thank you! Totally kewl! :) > > > > > > You'll notice below that I'm taking full advantage of it. > > > > > > I just realise this as well - after I upgraded to 1.2.1 I really didn't > > look around much - just was grateful that my mail was alive and kicking > > - and being that I already created a script to generate my "personal" > > sigs, this is even better for my clients! > > I noticed this when I upgraded to 1.2.1, but it doesn't seem to work as > I expected. I have a script that puts out my sig as 5 lines. When I > use it in in evolution directly, any formatting get stripped out and the > sig is turned into one long string. > > For example, my script puts out: > =====================================8<------------------------------ > Dwight N. Tovey > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.dtovey.net/dwight > -- > Eagles may soar, but weasles don't get sucked into jet engines. > =====================================8<------------------------------ > > > Evolution turns this into: > =====================================8<------------------------------ > Dwight N. Tovey Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dtovey.net/dwight -- > Eagles may soar, but weasles don't get sucked into jet engines. > =====================================8<------------------------------ > > > Not what I wanted at all. It was even worse when I used a sig that had > two columns of text: > =====================================8<------------------------------ > Dwight N. Tovey Unix SysAdmin/Developer > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gremeg systems > Boise, ID. > --- > Young at Heart -- Slightly Older in Other Places > =====================================8<------------------------------ > > > All the extra spaces that the script inserted to keep the right column > aligned get removed and the sig turns into: > =====================================8<------------------------------ > Dwight N. Tovey Unix SysAdmin/Developer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gremeg > systems Boise, ID. --- Young at Heart -- Slightly Older in Other Places > =====================================8<------------------------------ > > > So any formatting that my script inserted for me just gets removed by > evolution. Am I doing something wrong or is this behavior intentional > for some reason? > > For now I get around it by having a cron job call my script every few > minutes and dump the output into a file. I then have evolution > configured to use whatever that file happens to have at the moment as my > sig. Less than ideal, but I get the results that I want. > > > Now if I can just figure out how to change the quoting strings to > > something more personal - any insight? > > What did you have in mind? The sig that my script puts out is the three > info lines (name, email address, http url), a seperator, and a random > line from a file of one-liners. If your interested I could send you the > script. > /dwight _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
