This one has bothered me for years. It just happened to piss me off
right now because I tried to do something as complicated as copy and
paste.
Apple Mail has a mode where lines are double-spaced. I have no idea
how Mail gets into this mode (though I think it happens when replying
to Outlook users), or how to get out of it. I don't know what Mail
will do when it actually sends the thing -- do two widely spaced but
consecutive lines collapse to two adjacent lines, or does a blank
line get added because WYSIWYG? If I add my own blank lines between
paragraphs will there be three blank lines in the sent message making
me look like an ass? Or by omitting them, will different quoted
sections run together making me look like a twit? Is this magically
supplied blank space there because it means something, or is it just
random stupidity?
Anyway, I usually write URLs as so:
Example Web Page
http://www.example.com/
I usually copy the title from the Web page itself (except for pages
which don't bother to repeat the title in the page[1] (HATE) -- since
the browser doesn't offer a convenient way to copy the <title> content
[2] (HATE)). On a normal page, I can triple-click in FireFox to
select an item or paragraph -- perfect. But in Safari, not only do
you get trailing newlines, but pasting into Mail activates the double-
spacing mystery mode.
I just tried this in Leopard, and deleting the pasted newline makes
things normal again. But not in Tiger.
Good thing I had a 'text editor' handy. (A 'text editor' is an
application that lets you edit 'plain text', and you can download one
from the 'Internet' if your system doesn't come with one.)
Josh
[1] Heh, guess which of the above pages doesn't repeat the title in-
body?
[2] Safari's Web Inspector does let you copy the title once you
navigate to it, with some effort. And it STILL causes double-spacing.
