FYI, Gmail is indenting the message correctly.
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:01:13 -0500, George Dinwiddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > -- It is the duty of a patriot to protect his country from its government" -Thomas Paine Blog: http://superwombat.blogspot.com To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
