Bob La Quey wrote: > On 6/24/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Carl Lowenstein wrote: >> > On 6/24/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Carl Lowenstein wrote: >> >> >> >> > Still looks proportional to me. Even with the H. I can see it in >> >> > fixed-width by >> >> > finding the "show original" button and clicking on it. >> >> > >> >> > The only noticeable effect I have seen from changing the browser >> >> > setting is that the proportional font it shows things in has become >> >> > smaller. Fixable with <ctrl>+ but that is sort of a pain. >> >> > >> >> >> >> I believe it's your looking tool, not anybody's composing tool >> >> (providing they are sending text). >> >> >> >> ========== >> >> |||||||||| >> >> 0123456789 >> >> abcdefghij >> >> WWWWWWWWWW >> >> MMMMMMMMMM >> >> .......... >> >> ========== >> >> >> > >> > I agree. So how does one fix the "looking tool"? The alleged >> > "Customize Google" fix is described in such a way that one would >> > believe that it does the job. But it doesn't, at least for me. >> > >> >> It may be that "you can't get there from here". I found a gripe that >> seem to be about just this. >> >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Past-discussions/browse_thread/thread/de84e747b1f9fffb/e154390f9228fb72?q=gmail+display+font&rnum=1#e154390f9228fb72 >> >> >> ..maybe you can pop the email (or forward it) to a more configurable >> mail client? >> >> Regards, >> ..jim > > > Heh, how about HTML mail with the <pre> tag :) > > Now we have a reason to use HTML mail; use HTML mail > with the <pre> tag to emulate old fashioned fixed width > font email.
Maybe there's a business opportunity here? Add some kind of structured tags <post-address> <post-content> <post-sig> <post-retaddr> maybe. Then Google could just extract the gmail within those tags, send that content to a post-injection station somewhere near the recipient specified in post-address, the injection station could print the content and an envelope, and deposit it into the USPS system for delivery. :-? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
