On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 09:41:49PM -0000, jhrothjr wrote:
>
>
> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gary Feldman
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > aacockburn wrote:
> >
> > > Here's the weird thing --- I used spaces in the entry form, not tabs,
> > > and checked it in Preview, and they were all there. I clicked Send,
> > > and then in the posted version everything is left aligned .... but
> >
> > I've learned recently that figuring out email formatting is more
> difficult than one might expect. There's the user's mail client, the
> mailing list's processing (if any), the recipient's client, and any
> online archival services. There's a plethora of settings, including
> wrap settings on both sender's and recipient's mail clients, as well
> as the assortment of processing done for replies. Then throw in
> conversions between HTML and plain text, and back. I wouldn't be
> surprised if it's the latter that's confusing things.
> >
> > The result is that even when sending to yourself, it's easy to
> configure your mail client so that the appearance of the message as
> you compose it is not the same as the appearance when you read the
> received version.
>
> Let's try a very simple experiment. I'm going to
> send this version with my default setting of plain
> text, then I'm going to reply a second time with
> the same thing and send it with my default set to
> HTML.
>
> Left margin
> 3 spaces
> 6 spaces
> 9 spaces
I think Alistair was talking about how the message looks in the web
view. Both of your experiments come out fine in email. The web view
doesn't do preformatting, so the browser will swallow consecutive
spaces.
> (note - tab doesn't work - it selects the next box)
Try pasting in a tab copied from elsewhere.
- George
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