Re: filling more narrowly --- or unfilling -- for export to email, upon ascii export

2024-05-25 Thread Samuel Wales
for now i am doing (setq org-ascii-text-width 40). idk if recipient devices are smaller, but it doesn't seem too bad if they are not. On Thursday, May 23, 2024, Samuel Wales wrote: > thanks both. > > > I write my email using org syntax and then invoke > > > > M-x org-mime-htmlize RET > > > >

filling more narrowly --- or unfilling -- for export to email, upon ascii export

2024-05-23 Thread Samuel Wales
thanks both. > I write my email using org syntax and then invoke > > M-x org-mime-htmlize RET > > just before sending. i'm guessing that would solve all formatting issues. not sure how quoting [top post or interstitial] conversations would work. however, last time i tried sending html through w

Re: filling more narrowly --- or unfilling -- for export to email, upon ascii export

2024-05-22 Thread Ihor Radchenko
Samuel Wales writes: > then i want to send email, preferably via ascii export. i do not know > whehter i should try to fill to a shorter column [in org i use 60 normally] > because the recipient might have a smaller window for reading the mail, or > unfill everything. > > unfilled paragraphs see

Re: filling more narrowly --- or unfilling -- for export to email, upon ascii export

2024-05-22 Thread Fraga, Eric
Hi Samuel, On Wednesday, 22 May 2024 at 00:53, Samuel Wales wrote: > unfilled paragraphs seems to be the norm in email these days for > nontechnical folk. but org has plain lists and things, which need > org-style unfilling. Given the profusion of potential devices for reading email and their di

filling more narrowly --- or unfilling -- for export to email, upon ascii export

2024-05-22 Thread Samuel Wales
i get pretty confused about this. i often write things in org, with my own fill column, and m-q. and various half-broken tricks to try to fill/unfill. then i want to send email, preferably via ascii export. i do not know whehter i should try to fill to a shorter column [in org i use 60 normally