Mon, 6 Jan 2003 12:59:29 [GMT +0100] (6:59 AM EST here) Marcus Ohlstr�m wrote:
> On Monday, January 6, 2003, 02:50, Sue wrote: >> The person on the other end, if he views messages in HTML, will >> still see my signature and the quoted text all in small gray font. > Not if you have composed and sent your mail with TB!. TB! does not > send anything else then plain text, how that plain text is viewed is > up to the mail client of the recipient. Philosophically, we TheBat! users are opposed to this, but... Since HTML is a mark-up language and since HTML mark-up documents are written in plain-text, it would seem to me that you can use TheBat! to write an HTML message. Text-only renditions (e.g. TheBat!'s rendition) of the HTML message would include the HTML markings, but that might be OK for Sue's intended recipients, if their mail readers are capable of recognizing an HTML message and displaying it as the sender wanted it to be displayed. I haven't tried to do it, but can't Microsoft OE (among others) do that? (If you want to experiment, the HTML Cheatsheet at http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/ might help you.) This method might be too cumbersome for marking up a full message, but it might be useful for Sue, to distinguish her signature as it is displayed to her intended recipients (but cluttering her signature as displayed by TheBat!), by including HTML markings in her signature file. If you really insisted on complicatedly marking your messages with HTML, you could copy your message into an HTML word processor, use the somewhat easier to use processor to mark the message, save the marked-up document as a text file, then copy that text file back into your TheBat! message; but why bother. Do multi-font, multi-weight, multi-color presentations of messages really add anything to the thoughts that you want the messages to communicate? > AFAIK TB! is the only client which by default chooses to show the > signature in a small grey font. Unless the person at the other end > uses TB! he/she will not see the signature as you do. >> My goal is to make my signature stand out differently from the text >> above it and the text below it. > Again, you cannot do this since TB! is not capable of sending > formatted text. That's not strictly true. See above. Using The Bat! v1.62 Christmas Edition on Windows 95 4.0 Build 1111a -- Daniel A. Grunberg Kensington, Maryland, USA homepage: www.nyx.net/~dgrunber/ ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
