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Hello G�nther!
On Thursday, June 21, 2001 at 3:45:19 PM you wrote:
> Why exactly can't I do this? I know (I mentioned this before) that it's
> hard for people in this list to accept that other people have other
> preferences when writing/reading mails, but I wonder with how much verve
> people try to defend their opinion and convince other people that their
> opinion is the only one which counts. If I don't use tables, I don't need
> fixed font. If I don't need ascii "art", I don't need fixed font. If I
> don't need justifying (or indenting) I don't need fixed font. For me, I
> don't see a single reason why I should use fixed fonts, and I don't know
> any other mail client who forces the user to use one (except for the
> telnet clients of course; and I don't know if AK Mail has the ability to
> change to font to the preferred one).
You just QED'ed me. what Marck wrote was factually correct. Nothing
else was meant.
Example ASCII "art": You don't like it, OK. But that has nothing to do
with the fact that you can show it correctly only with fixed-pitch
fonts.
Another one? If you want to use tables in plain text e-mail you can
only do it by fixed-pitch fonts, that is a fact. You don't need
tables? Does not change the fact, does it?
Now, here we are again, rolling the discussion I wanted to avoid. I am
not defending an either-or approach, I haven't even made up my mind
about fixed vs. variable. I tend - in the moment - to fixed. But that
was neither mine nor Marck's point. We tried just to state the way it
is and why it is such.
BTW, the *fact* that you don't *need* fixed depends on that you don't
*want* to use certain features that require fixed.
And don't make me do one of my lectures on logic (in the technical
sense) out of it.
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