Vishal, [V] wrote: V> Well, as it will be sent, yes. At the other (receiving) end, messages V> written in microEd using, say, Courier New, appear different when V> viewed with a default font such as Verdana.
Yes. You'll never really be able to get away from this. This is why a lot of editors will use only fixed width fonts. No matter what fixed width font you use, the text will appear exactly as with other fixed width fonts. Not so with the nicer looking variable width fonts. When I say the formatting is preserved, I mean that the line breaks are preserved etc. Try using the alternative editor. If you use it, while composing, your message will be nicely wrapped at your editor defined setting. In actual fact the text isn't wrapped at all and the recipient receives unwrapped text. Now *that* is a gross disparity in perceived formatting as opposed to what the recipient receives. No matter which font your recipient uses, they'll never see the message the way you did before hitting 'send'. V> I've had problems with this. And since a number of people reading my V> mail use HTML viewing, and therefore usually not Courier or other V> fixed-width fonts, I can't be guaranteed that anything I send them V> will look identical on their machine. It need not look *identical* in the majority of instances. Not unless you wish to send tables and the like. In that case, you either send an attachment or your recipient agrees to use a fixed width font. V> What do you mean by text reflowing options? Auto-format, Alt-L and V> the like? Yes. AM>> Since most of MicroEds actions are keyboard shortcut triggered, AM>> using it in conjunction with a Macro makes it a real pleasure to AM>> use and makes it possible for me to use it with other clients like AM>> my newsreader. V> This sounds interesting. Could you elaborate? Maybe an example of a V> macro or usage with the newsreader.. For example, say I wish to split a quoted paragraph into two and reply to each part separately. I reflow the paragraph, split it into two, separate the parts so that I can insert my own text, reflow the second part of the paragraph and then have the cursor in position to start typing. With the use of a PowerPro macro, I achieve all of that with a single keyboard macro triggered by hitting Alt-D. AM>> to manually change my signatures V> Now *that* I find really interesting. How do you do this - by having V> different quick templates for different signatures? If so, doesn't V> remembering all those keyboard combinations get to be a pain after a V> while? For each signature template (for me these are kept as quick templates), I include the '%issignature' macro. What this macro does, is to delete all text below the signature delimiter in the editor, and replace it with the output of the quick template. In effect, you delete one signature and replace it with another. Remember that you can add anything to the template, so often, doing this not only changes my signature, but also changes my From name/address, whether the message should be signed or not etc. So I may typing a message and decide to change signatures, I then type the quick template handle and then hit <CTRL>+<spacebar>. Voila .. new signature appears. AM>> or quoting what's on the clipboard which is a little different from AM>> pasting as a quotation using the editor. V> Could you make this a little clearer? Quoting the clipboard contents quotes without quoting blank lines between paragraphs. Using the 'Paste as Quotation' option in the editor, leads to blank lines between paragraphs being quoted. V> Another useful trick. I've never used it, mainly because I'm never V> sure what to expect by clicking the 'next' and 'previous' buttons? V> What do they normally jump to? Funnily, I hardly use the toolbar buttons in a view folder window. I use the keyboard shortcuts. The blue button moves to the next and previous message in the message list. The red buttons do the same, however the previously viewed message is deleted. V> Also, you can't view the account pane in two separate windows can V> you? No. You view the account pane from the main window only. V> Interesting again. When you say virtual folder, you don't actually V> mean a folder somewhere in the account tree do you? No. Though the ticker messages have been filtered to their various folders, opening the ticker virtual folder, displays all those messages, now in multiple folders, in a single virtual folder message list. You can then browse all of them as if they were in fact in a single folder. V> On your advice, I uninstalled ZA today and tried BlackICE PC protection 3.6. V> Automatic mail checks still don't work for me. Could you tell me how you V> configured your installation to handle this? It's very disappointing. We may be barking up the wrong tree in that the problem isn't a firewall problem. -- -= allie_M =- | List Moderator PGPKeys: http://www.ac-martin.com/pgpkeys.html _
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