On Jul 19, 2010, at 10:18 AM, pdimage wrote:
On 19/7/10 13:54, "Dan" <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
I thought about that when I originally received the mails and
indeed
tried it out in Entourage by hitting reply to those allegedly rich
text
mails - but my Entourage strips all the rich text from the quote by
default
leaving quotes as above with the > leader - so I presumed Kyle's
Entourage
(mentioned in his headers) would do the same....
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.
HTH,
- Dan.
I can't find anything in Entourage which will allow me to see
the raw
form and hence the formatting and that simply leaves me not knowing
what it
is - plain text - html text - or rich text - that's if some clients
have
rich text as a third option.
I hope you mean Lucida 14 - Lucinda 14 sounds like straying
into Jerry
Lee Lewis territory. I may try Lucida - Monaco is not the prettiest
by any
means...
Yep, he had to mean Lucida developed in the mid 1980's and it IS a
proportional font which will default to rtf.
http://www.fonts.com/FontPackages/SuperFamilies/Lucida.htm
However, Dan's emails appear to be in courier, (non proportional),
whereas other emails that I get are delivered as written/formatted.
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.
I have no particular bias against any tech companies - software
is good
or bad. Entourage is quite good - Excel is exactly what it says -
excellent.
What does AFAIC stand for? I know the one with the k at the end.....
AFAIAC - As far as I am concerned (I left out an "A").
But I have an excuse... I'm old!
JT
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