The other side of the issue is when I want to forward an html msg that I
rcvd (off list) to a friend, there is no option in t-bird to include the
pictures as in the original. I've tried changing prefs, but no change.
I guess I'll have to install safari (updates and try it. Or is there a
On Jul 24, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Charles Lenington wrote:
The other side of the issue is when I want to forward an html msg
that I rcvd (off list) to a friend, there is no option in t-bird to
include the pictures as in the original. I've tried changing
prefs, but no change. I guess I'll have
On Jul 20, 2010, at 6:55 PM, glen wrote:
- Original Message
From: James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com
Heh... You're only a kid by my standards. Sometimes off topic,
(officially),
still can share knowledge or at the least some general
information. I learn a
lot of
On 21/7/10 10:51, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com wrote:
Still had a waxer for ultimate paste up plus photographs were still a
task of the printer, (pre-press).
That's me! Pre-press final film planner, platemaker, camera, scanner,
Cromalin proofer et al extraordinaire. Boy were those
On Jul 21, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jul 20, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Jul 20, 2010, at 5:14 PM, onelucent wrote:
Yes, from an era, when economy in programming was a virtue.
It still is a virtue with the ascendency of the iPhone, iPad, and
other mobile
On Jul 21, 2010, at 12:32 PM, James Therrault wrote:
The faster machines become along with huge amounts of RAM, the sloppier code
gets.
A common claim, but not really backed up by evidence... modern computers do a
LOT more. Yes it lets people get away without hand-writing
On Jul 21, 2010, at 3:39 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jul 21, 2010, at 12:32 PM, James Therrault wrote:
The faster machines become along with huge amounts of RAM, the
sloppier code gets.
A common claim, but not really backed up by evidence... modern
computers do a LOT more. Yes it
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:37 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
At 4:20 PM -0600 7/19/2010, Tina K. wrote:
Amanda Ward wrote:
Wasn't this supposed to go away?
Yes, this thread has been killed twice now. PLEASE STOP! Take it off list if
you must.
This is not that other thread. Do you
On 20/7/10 07:16, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote:
It is not about Mac G hardware or one step removed. It is a good
candidate for the Mac2Mac list or a list where people like to debate
what plain text is while sending in rich text somewhere
It is about display
On Jul 20, 2010, at 3:07 AM, pdimage wrote:
On 20/7/10 07:16, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote:
It is not about Mac G hardware or one step removed. It is a good
candidate for the Mac2Mac list or a list where people like to debate
what plain text is while sending in
On Jul 20, 2010, at 10:59 AM, James Therrault wrote:
OTOH, I understand exactly what Dan stated when he uses Lucida as a
display font but the actual output when mailed defaults to Courier
which is the plain text.
There is no internet wide official default plain text font. Many
At 11:58 AM -0400 7/20/2010, Len Gerstel wrote:
The receiving device can be set to output the ASCII code as Lucida,
Courier, Zapf Chancery, Braille, punched paper tape, 80 column
Hollerith cards, a ticker tape machine (yes, someone has kludged one
to print out emails sent to it) or to speak
On Jul 20, 2010, at 7:59 AM, James Therrault wrote:
I believe that RTF is a relatively late development as sort of a bridge
between full blown type control and plain text. But like you, it can pass on
as some here just don't know a lot about typography.
RTF is about the only thing
On Jul 20, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Dan wrote:
Email on paper tape could be interesting! Now I've got this whole Gomez
Addams at his stock ticker image in my mind.
Oh, man, that would be so cool...something akin to this:
http://www.nycresistor.com/2010/04/06/nycrteletype/
Also, die, Dan,
Looks like another interminable session of comments about something
the Nannies have explained over and over why it's a no no. When
will it end?
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On Jul 20, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Len Gerstel wrote:
On Jul 20, 2010, at 10:59 AM, James Therrault wrote:
OTOH, I understand exactly what Dan stated when he uses Lucida as
a display font but the actual output when mailed defaults to
Courier which is the plain text.
There is no internet
On Jul 20, 2010, at 11:19 AM, Dan wrote:
At 11:58 AM -0400 7/20/2010, Len Gerstel wrote:
The receiving device can be set to output the ASCII code as
Lucida, Courier, Zapf Chancery, Braille, punched paper tape, 80
column Hollerith cards, a ticker tape machine (yes, someone has
kludged one
On Jul 20, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jul 20, 2010, at 7:59 AM, James Therrault wrote:
I believe that RTF is a relatively late development as sort of a
bridge between full blown type control and plain text. But like
you, it can pass on as some here just don't know a lot
On 7/20/10 12:24 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
(Also, if you aver need a simple, easy-to-parse and modify RTF
document, to use as a template, for instance, WordPad from Windows
95 or 98 is unparalleled. Word, TextEdit, and most other word
processors make enormously complex RTF files. Hello World
On Jul 20, 2010, at 2:55 PM, James Therrault wrote:
Certainly, RTF does provide even the novice user with pretty good type
control but it never did really fit my needs and of course it wasn't
available to Mac users until later.
RTF was supported on the Mac as of Word 3 iirc, and I know
On Jul 20, 2010, at 3:14 PM, onelucent wrote:
On 7/20/10 12:24 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
(Also, if you aver need a simple, easy-to-parse and modify RTF document, to
use as a template, for instance, WordPad from Windows 95 or 98 is
unparalleled. Word, TextEdit, and most other word processors
On Jul 20, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jul 20, 2010, at 2:55 PM, James Therrault wrote:
Certainly, RTF does provide even the novice user with pretty good
type control but it never did really fit my needs and of course it
wasn't available to Mac users until later.
RTF was
- Original Message
From: James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com
Heh... You're only a kid by my standards. Sometimes off topic,
(officially),
still can share knowledge or at the least some general information. I learn
a
lot of this list. I spent about thirty years in and
On 19/7/10 03:39, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com wrote:
You don't appear to be using plain text, (at least in my reader).
sigh
JT
Hmm - I am experiencing this anomaly recently too. I've been on the
lists for more years than I care to remember and originally used Claris
On Jul 19, 2010, at 3:34 AM, pdimage wrote:
On 19/7/10 03:39, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com wrote:
(In a previous thread responding to Kyle Hansen)
You don't appear to be using plain text, (at least in my reader).
sigh
JT
Hmm - I am experiencing this anomaly recently
On 19/7/10 11:19, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com wrote:
I use Apple's Mail and have it set to only send out in plain text.
To see if you are actually using plain text, just type out a few
letters in a new mail. Then select all the text that you have type,
click on Fonts, and it
On Jul 19, 2010, at 6:11 AM, pdimage wrote:
On 19/7/10 11:19, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com wrote:
I use Apple's Mail and have it set to only send out in plain text.
To see if you are actually using plain text, just type out a few
letters in a new mail. Then select all the text that
At 9:34 AM +0100 7/19/2010, pdimage wrote:
On 19/7/10 03:39, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com wrote:
You don't appear to be using plain text, (at least in my reader).
Hmm - I am experiencing this anomaly recently too.
What you observed, in this particular case, was kindof a cascade
On 19/7/10 13:54, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
What you observed, in this particular case, was kindof a cascade
failure. Kevin Barth's reply in the thread was in rich text. Kyle
replied to that, quoting Kevin, so his email client used the same
format. Then James replied to that, and
On Jul 19, 2010, at 10:18 AM, pdimage wrote:
On 19/7/10 13:54, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
What you observed, in this particular case, was kindof a cascade
failure. Kevin Barth's reply in the thread was in rich text. Kyle
replied to that, quoting Kevin, so his email client used the
On Jul 19, 2010, at 6:11 AM, pdimage wrote:
On 19/7/10 11:19, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com wrote:
But when you wrote this what did you see in your reader -
presumably not
fixed width Courier. Was it full width and a html type font as I
saw and if
so was it plain text or
Please Content-Type text/plain
describes a mail message that, as delivered, contains zero, nada, no, precisely
no, information about the font and size in which the email was sent.
The font used for display by the client software is totally, absolutely,
firmly, decided at the time the
On Jul 19, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
Please Content-Type text/plain
describes a mail message that, as delivered, contains zero, nada,
no, precisely no, information about the font and size in which the
email was sent.
You're missing the entire point. I never implied that
@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Plain text format
On Jul 19, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
Please Content-Type text/plain
describes a mail message that, as delivered, contains zero, nada,
no, precisely no, information about the font and size in which the
email was sent.
You're missing
At 4:18 PM +0100 7/19/2010, pdimage wrote:
... My default is Lucinda 14, btw.
I hope you mean Lucida 14 - Lucinda 14 sounds like straying into Jerry
Lee Lewis territory. I may try Lucida - Monaco is not the prettiest by any
means...
ROFL. Font menus always seem to display in tiny sizes
At 3:36 PM -0500 7/19/2010, James Therrault wrote:
However, Dan's emails appear to be in courier, (non proportional),
whereas other emails that I get are delivered as written/formatted.
I send in plain text. It is YOUR client that is applying the font.
I have my mail client set to use Lucida
Amanda Ward wrote:
Wasn't this supposed to go away?
Yes, this thread has been killed twice now. PLEASE STOP! Take it off
list if you must.
Tina
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Ultra 64 MB DDR VRAM
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Dan wrote:
At 4:20 PM -0600 7/19/2010, Tina K. wrote:
Amanda Ward wrote:
Wasn't this supposed to go away?
Yes, this thread has been killed twice now. PLEASE STOP! Take it off
list if you must.
This is not that other thread. Do you have an objection to a reasonable
discussion about how
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