powermail-discuss Digest #2952 - Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Menlo in PowerMail
by "Tobias Jung" <[email protected]>
Re: Menlo in PowerMail
by "Rene Merz" <[email protected]>
Re: Menlo in PowerMail
by "Beatrix Willius" <[email protected]>
Re: Menlo in PowerMail
by "Tobias Jung" <[email protected]>
Re: Menlo in PowerMail
by "Tobias Jung" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Menlo in PowerMail
From: "Tobias Jung" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:00:31 +0200
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Subject: Re: Menlo in PowerMail
From: "Rene Merz" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:10:31 +0200
Tobias Jung wrote:
>since I prefer monospace fonts for composing my messages, I just tried
>Apple's Menlo font (which is part of OS X since SnowLeopard).
>
>But at the end of most paragraphs, I get a rectangle character - as if
>PowerMail would display the line feed. The strange thing is, it's not
>*always* there, e.g. it's not on on empty line and it's not there when
>I've got the spell checker turned on and the last word in the line gets
>marked.
[...]
Simple answer:
Menlo is not a font for any random use, because it's the default font for the
_Terminal_ since Snow Leopard. And just because of this the paragraph sign has
to be showed.
Just change to an other monospace font like Courier or so.
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Subject: Re: Menlo in PowerMail
From: "Beatrix Willius" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:23:03 +0200
Can you copy the text to a hex editor to see which character the end of line is
in Powermail? Normally, these rectangles are shown when the font doesn't
contain the character. The end of line should be a line feed (decimal: 10, hex:
0A) on a Mac, but perhaps Powermail is doing something funky there.
On 19.10.2011, at 14:00, Tobias Jung wrote:
> since I prefer monospace fonts for composing my messages, I just tried
> Apple's Menlo font (which is part of OS X since SnowLeopard).
>
> But at the end of most paragraphs, I get a rectangle character as if
> PowerMail would display the line feed. The strange thing is, it's not
> *always* there, e.g. it's not on on empty line and it's not there when I've
> got the spell checker turned on and the last word in the line gets marked.
>
> So, when I type:
> Apple
> PowerMail
> qwert
> asdfg
> house
> yxcv
>
>
I see the rectangle after the "real" words but not at the end of the other
> lines (with "qwert" etc.). Turning off the spell checker, the rectangle will
> appear on these lines, too.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Regards
Trixi Willius
http://www.mothsoftware.com
Mail Archiver X: The email archiving solution for professionals
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Subject: Re: Menlo in PowerMail
From: "Tobias Jung" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:29:11 +0200
Rene Merz wrote (Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:10:31 +0200):
> Simple answer:
> Menlo is not a font for any random use, because it's the default font
> for the _Terminal_ since Snow Leopard. And just because of this the
> paragraph sign has to be showed.
Sounds reasonable.
I guess text editors know about this and simply hide the paragraph sign somehow?
> Just change to an other monospace font like Courier or so.
Never liked Courier very much (at least not at the small sizes I prefer) so I
guess I'll switch back to good old ProFont. ;-)
Thank you,
kind regards,
Tobias Jung
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Subject: Re: Menlo in PowerMail
From: "Tobias Jung" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:12:51 +0200
Beatrix Willius wrote (Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:23:03 +0200):
> Can you copy the text to a hex editor to see which character the end of
> line is in Powermail? Normally, these rectangles are shown when the font
> doesn't contain the character. The end of line should be a line feed
> (decimal: 10, hex: 0A) on a Mac, but perhaps Powermail is doing
> something funky there.
Unless as the line break character isn't changed at copy & paste, PowerMail
uses 0D (CR) as a line break, see:
<http://www.tobiasjung.net/storage/hexfiend_pm.png>
So it's not the OS X standard line break but nothing funky, too. ;-)
Kind regards,
Tobias Jung
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