ahhh! the quiet observer found where this hole commotion stems from! >>Ok, here is something that I'm not getting in the whole "email >>composition" argument. And I'm not meaning to criticize anything, I'm >>just seeking clarification. Are you manually entering line-feeds in your >>paragraphs? > >Absolutely. To do otherwise either relies on the program to break the >line as you type, or for you to set the window width at exactly the >point at which it will be broken when it gets sent.
this is the exact point where you ARE getting fooled: obviously you are typing your lines longer than the standard internet protocol and then entering a HARD RETURN and thus your emails arrive not nicely wrapped. Other than for example in QuarkXpress and/or InDesign - both design programs for PRINT, here in the world of the internet there exists no other type of returns in email than hard returns. Powermail basically doesn't wrap at all on out-going mail - you open or close the window width how it is comfortable for you to read and the servers then wrap the lines to the internet standard. >And I've never minded typing in my own RETURN. In fact, that's exactly >how I need it to be. I do know how to type, and to format a proper letter. If you do type a letter, you are used to the fact that paper size is what it is and that you can not endlessly type but you have to hit return within these boundaries. As PM allowes you to widen or tighten the width of the window, one can loose sight of what would be such a boundary and in fact that there ARE such boundaries, even if invisible. If you can get the concept of the standard internet type wrapping as the 'format of the paper' you might better understand what happens if you type longer lines before hitting return. On mechanical typewriters you could easily do that and you'd just continue typing not onto paper but onto the cylinder. In email exchange the 'overwritten' text does not get lost but put onto the next line. Basically, if you INSIST on wanting to use your own hard returns PLUS you want the receiver to get the emails in a pleasing manner, you truly should widen the email window to the width of the standard width and then make sure your returns lie within that width. That then is not silly but rather like you yourself making sure you are not writing over the edge of your letter. ---marlyse
