Hi Allie Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 7:53:11 AM, you wrote:
AM> When I say the formatting is preserved, I mean that the line breaks are AM> preserved etc. Agreed. That helps. AM> Try using the alternative editor. If you use it, while AM> composing, your message will be nicely wrapped at your editor defined AM> setting. In actual fact the text isn't wrapped at all and the recipient AM> receives unwrapped text. Now *that* is a gross disparity in perceived AM> formatting as opposed to what the recipient receives. No matter which AM> font your recipient uses, they'll never see the message the way you did AM> before hitting 'send'. Yep, I've always hated that problem too. And it's not only confined to email clients. 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. AM> It need not look *identical* in the majority of instances. Proportional fonts could accomplish that equally well, I suppose, if hard line breaks were put in like in MicroEd. Plus they'd look better at my end. AM> For example, say I wish to split a quoted paragraph into two and reply AM> to each part separately. I reflow the paragraph, split it into two, AM> separate the parts so that I can insert my own text, reflow the second AM> part of the paragraph and then have the cursor in position to start AM> typing. With the use of a PowerPro macro, I achieve all of that with a AM> single keyboard macro triggered by hitting Alt-D. Nice. I wish there were some way to do this in TB itself. I'm rather against the idea of installing another piece of software. AM> For each signature template (for me these are kept as quick templates), AM> I include the '%issignature' macro. What this macro does, is to delete AM> all text below the signature delimiter in the editor, and replace it AM> with the output of the quick template. In effect, you delete one AM> signature and replace it with another. Remember that you can add AM> anything to the template, so often, doing this not only changes my AM> signature, but also changes my From name/address, whether the message AM> should be signed or not etc. AM> So I may typing a message and decide to change signatures, I then type AM> the quick template handle and then hit <CTRL>+<spacebar>. Voila .. new AM> signature appears. Many thanks. I'll certainly use this now. AM> Quoting the clipboard contents quotes without quoting blank lines AM> between paragraphs. AM> Using the 'Paste as Quotation' option in the editor, leads to blank AM> lines between paragraphs being quoted. Hmm..I never knew that. I've never used the paste from clipboard option, though, but this will be good to keep in mind. AM> The blue button moves to the next and previous AM> message in the message list. The red buttons do the same, however the AM> previously viewed message is deleted. Yes, I know that. What I meant is that it's never clear what 'next' and 'previous' mean in different contexts. Depending on how your messages are sorted, they could mean anything. "Delete and move to next" could be disastrous here, which is why I never keep the main window out of sight. By the way, Eudora also supports viewing messages in two windows. If I recall correctly, so does Outlook Express. It's nothing unusual in the TB. V>> Interesting again. When you say virtual folder, you don't actually V>> mean a folder somewhere in the account tree do you? AM> No. Though the ticker messages have been filtered to their various AM> folders, opening the ticker virtual folder, What do you mean by "opening the ticker virtual folder"? Cheers, -Vishal ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.00 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
