On Jul 19, 2010, at 6:11 AM, pdimage wrote:
On 19/7/10 11:19, "James Therrault" <[email protected]> wrote:
I use Apple's Mail and have it set to only send out in "plain text."
To see if you are actually using plain text, just type out a few
letters in a new mail. Then select all the text that you have type,
click on "Fonts," and it should default to Courier. Try to change
the text and you'll get an alert to the effect that if you click to
change font, you will be using RTF, otherwise click to use "plain
text."
Plain text, (at least in my very long experience), always is the
default to non-proportional Courier. That goes for the publishing
biz as well.
JT
Entourage is a little different - there does not seem to be an
option to
choose or even see the font for outgoing plain text emails - set in
stone I
presume. Font choices are greyed out so I have no idea whether I am
sending
Courier or Monaco or whatever. Or just a default character set
which is
formatted on receipt.
Incoming I have the choice to view or print in any of the fonts
on my
mac.
You don't appear to be using plain text, (at least in my reader).
<sigh>
JT
But when you wrote this what did you see in your reader -
presumably not
fixed width Courier. Was it full width and a html type font as I
saw and if
so was it plain text or html? I can't imagine Kyle sending html to
the list.
Bit of a puzzler.....as I think Kyle uses Entourage too....perhaps a
mistake....
AFAIC, anything Microsoft is a minus. I used the reader in Nutscrape
or SeaMonkey for a number of years but switched to Mail about a year
ago.
That said, some info on plain text can be found here:
http://www.techterms.com/definition/plaintext
But, I'm not sure why they didn't mention Courier as the usual plain
text default.
JT
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