ken wrote: > > > - If you want to have text/plain email "nicely formatted" for non-nmh > > > users, it seems like your only portable choice is to use > > > quoted-printable and make each paragraph one long line. > > > >How would I go about trying that with mh now? > > Use your favorite editor to make each paragraph a long line. mhbuild will > automatically encode your message as quoted-printable (unless, of course, you > did something like put "-maxunencoded 998" in your .mh_profile for some > ridiculous reason).
I see. I actually already do that for some recipients, because I knew my mail looked terrible for them otherwise. I didn't realize the long lines were causing mh to encode as q-p. Makes sense though. > >Well, it only looks ugly if the recipient's screen is narrow. (I > >think.) But since no one uses anything but a phone these days, I guess > >that's not much of an "only'. Maybe we just need a "read this in > >landscape mode" flag. ;-) > > One of Hymie's complaints was that his messages came out looking "chopped" > to people; I'm not sure if that's because the recipient's display is > wider or narrow than 80 columns. I think things won't look "normal" Well, using my gmail account as the test subject, it seemed that on the big screen, gmail shows the mail with all my line breaks just where they should be, because all the lines fit. On my phone, the lines all wrap individually, and get broken at the newline (or, rather, CRLF). That's why I think it's a small screen issue. But maybe there are more subtle things that go on with big screens I'm not aware of. > for those people unless we find some way to indicate to the recipient, > "Please autowrap these paragraps as appropriate". As far as I can tell, > the two ways to do that are "make every paragraph a long line using > q-p", or "generate HTML email". I'd certainly spend a lot less time making sure my paragraphs were neatly formatted if I knew they were going to be run through a q-p step! paul > > --Ken > =---------------------- paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 34.2 degrees)
