On Jul 19, 2010, at 7:54 AM, Dan wrote:
At 9:34 AM +0100 7/19/2010, pdimage wrote:
On 19/7/10 03:39, "James Therrault" <[email protected]> wrote:
> You don't appear to be using plain text, (at least in my reader).
Hmmmmmm - I am experiencing this anomaly recently too.
What you observed, in this particular case, was kindof a "cascade
failure". Kevin Barth's reply in the thread was in rich text.
Kyle replied to that, quoting Kevin, so his email client used the
same format. Then James replied to that, and stripped some of the
HTML.
A quick giveaway to tell if a message is plain or rich... Look at
the quoting. If the quoting is RFC standard, displayed with | or >
characters against the left margin, the message is probably plain
text. If the quoting is indented as if tabbed - it was probably
done as rich text (and when you strip the html tags, you lose all
the quoting levels).
I have my reader, (Mail), set to accept all formats, (rtf, HTML etc),
but in turn the send setting is plain text. If I receive one of the
typical emails with pix etc and formateed text, I can forward it with
pix but the text portion will default to courier.
The body of the mails I receive is set in my Entourage preferences
to display in fixed width 10 point Monaco - used to be 9 point but
now I'm over 60 and so are my eyes. The vast majority of the mail
I get from the lists displays in this format but there are
exceptions which appear to be html type format....like this one...
[snip]
This did not appear in my client as fixed width nor was it 10
point Monaco - it was double width and in a Helvetica type sans
serif font. Whilst this one from the same source sent shortly
after....
The font setting you put in your mail client is simply a default --
applied if the email message itself doesn't override it. It is
overridden by the font tags in the rich/html email. You should be
able to see this if you view the message in its raw form; in
particular, look for the "font" and "style" tags. In some mail
clients you can then bump the size, IF the html in the email
doesn't include hard-coded specific sizes.
... My default is Lucinda 14, btw.
From this end, your text appears to be courier. And, if I try to
set Lucida as a send default, it will trigger an alert that in order
to do so, it will be in rtf. IOW, Lucida probably is a proportional
typeface. (I used to know all of this stuff by heart but it has been
well over ten years since I've done any work in the publishing
field. Being retired, I now avoid work whenever possible).
Now, if I could only get NutZero to stop putting those annoying ads
at the end of each email...
<sigh>
JT
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