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


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