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On Thursday, June 28, 2001, at 11:26:24 AM PDT, Marck D Pearlstone wrote:
MDP> Poco, for instance, writes in HTML and breaks the list rules! Then
MDP> the reply text from your Poco message needs manual coaxing into any
MDP> semblance of legibility because of all of the missing spaces at the
MDP> ends of the "formatted" lines.
Hello Marck,
Before I started using The Bat! (my absolute favorite mail client, by the
way), I used both Poco and Calypso. Both, while having the capability of
composing with HTML, also have the capability to *turn off* the offending
HTML.
A new version of Poco was just released (v2.5), and since I was involved
in the beta testing, some of the things I've learned by using TB! are
slowly seeping into Pocomail's ("new" name) plain text editor (some text
formatting options, etc.) Poco's author is very receptive to users wishes,
and is always improving Poco. I told him that I had switched to TB! - and
why. He continued to work with me to improve Poco's text editor - based on
my experiences with TB! That said, for my needs, it's still got a ways to
go, and is still no TB!
Some mail - even plain text - that I receive from some Calypso users also
does strange things when viewed in TB! (like running off the edge of the
screen when quoted in a reply - requiring "Alt-l" to clean it up). For the
most part, I do feel that it's caused more by the sender's particular use
of formatting options (or lack thereof) than by the originating mail
client itself. I think.
But then, there's another kind of strange thing I've noticed between
Calypso and TB!...
If I open up an old mail I composed in Calypso (I always composed and
displayed only plain text in Calypso), and copy/paste it into my TB!
message editor, all line wrapping that was in the original Calypso message
will be gone, and will require TB!'s "Alt-l" treatment (I love "Alt-l"!).
Otherwise, it runs off the screen in one very long line.
What I don't understand in this last example is that both are dealing,
supposedly, with the very same character set and encoding (us-ascii,
7-bit). Any ideas as to why the "un-formatting" happens when copy/pasting
from Calypso into TB!?
Melissa
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