Re: [O] Space in Exported Text

2014-03-28 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia 2014-03-26, o godz. 14:56:08
Ken Mankoff mank...@gmail.com napisał(a):

 
 On 2014-03-26 at 14:32, Esben Stien wrote:
  If I f.ex make a beautiful table in org-mode: 
 
  |-+-+---++-|
  | foo | bar | xyzzy | hukarz | |
  | qux | | corge | grault | garply waldo fred plugh |
  | baz | |   || |
  |-+-+---++-|
 
   , it's not so beautiful anymore if I send it in an email.
 
  Is it not possible to force these spacings as space?
 
  I guess this is gnus fault, but I'm not really sure.
 
 Looks perfect to me. I'm using fixed-width font in my email
 client. Changing tabs to spaces won't solve bad looking tables because
 most people use variable-width fonts. Nothing you can do about that.

Terrible choice: HTML emails are evil.  Monospace fonts are illegal.

https://twitter.com/xor/status/432710872117428224

New evidence suggests that Manning, Snowden, and Assange each used a
powerful tool called monospace fonts.  Unlike the fonts innocent
Americans are familiar with, the 'monospace' fonts preferred by hackers
are most associated with cybercrime.

:)

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University



Re: [O] Space in Exported Text

2014-03-28 Thread Sam Flint

#part sign=pgpmime
You know, at this point, I'm surprised no-one has mentioned org-mime.
It works great, and let's you use tables, and just about any feature.














foo
bar
quux




1
2
3



4
5
6






Sam Flint
swfl...@flintfam.org
freenode: swflint
sip:swfl...@ekiga.net
XMPP: swfl...@flintfam.org
http://flintfam.org/~swflint
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[O] Space in Exported Text

2014-03-26 Thread Esben Stien
If I f.ex make a beautiful table in org-mode: 

|-+-+---++-|
| foo | bar | xyzzy | hukarz | |
| qux | | corge | grault | garply waldo fred plugh |
| baz | |   || |
|-+-+---++-|

 , it's not so beautiful anymore if I send it in an email.

Is it not possible to force these spacings as space?

I guess this is gnus fault, but I'm not really sure.

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Re: [O] Space in Exported Text

2014-03-26 Thread Ken Mankoff

On 2014-03-26 at 14:32, Esben Stien wrote:
 If I f.ex make a beautiful table in org-mode: 

 |-+-+---++-|
 | foo | bar | xyzzy | hukarz | |
 | qux | | corge | grault | garply waldo fred plugh |
 | baz | |   || |
 |-+-+---++-|

  , it's not so beautiful anymore if I send it in an email.

 Is it not possible to force these spacings as space?

 I guess this is gnus fault, but I'm not really sure.

Looks perfect to me. I'm using fixed-width font in my email
client. Changing tabs to spaces won't solve bad looking tables because
most people use variable-width fonts. Nothing you can do about that.

You can also use mu4e and compose emails in an Org minor-mode
(includes babel and everything!) and convert emails to HTML when sent
(and include a plain-text copy too). I think that would be the best
bet of having a table look good to the recipient. See Org Mode
Example section at bottom of
http://www.brool.com/index.php/using-mu4e 

  -k.




Re: [O] Space in Exported Text

2014-03-26 Thread William Denton

On 26 March 2014, Esben Stien wrote:


|-+-+---++-|
| foo | bar | xyzzy | hukarz | |
| qux | | corge | grault | garply waldo fred plugh |
| baz | |   || |
|-+-+---++-|

, it's not so beautiful anymore if I send it in an email.


It looks fine in my monospaced font---isn't it just a matter of formatting when 
you paste it into your preferred email client?


Bill
--
▮ William Denton ▮ Toronto, Canada ▮ http://www.miskatonic.org/ ▮


Re: [O] Space in Exported Text

2014-03-26 Thread Esben Stien
Ken Mankoff mank...@gmail.com writes:

 Looks perfect to me. 

Yeah, it seems it's because of non mono font, but I didn't think it
would be that drastic difference. 

, but I confirmed it, by copying something I sent to a person with a
gmail account into my emacs and it was perfect again. 

I guess this issue doesn't really have a solution, other than sending it
as html. 

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Re: [O] Space in Exported Text

2014-03-26 Thread Samuel Wales
tell him or her to click on show original.

or export to tsv, which will sometimes work.