On Sat, 2009-08-22, Thomas Fernandez wrote: > They added the option many versions ago: You can use the Windows > editor. Many people were unhappy with the way MicroEd works, because > most editors under Windows (notably the ones from Microsoft) behave in > a certain way and people just wanted to stick with what they were used > to. The Windows editor complies with that.
> I myself prefer MicroEd, the way it is, but that is my personal choice. I, on the other hand, much prefer the Windows editor. However, it has a problem for me that could be cured "with a simple checkbox." When I am composing, the editor wraps lines in a paragraph at my specified margin (75 chars). Unfortunately, when the message is transmitted, the paragraphs are sent *without* wrapping. Thus my correspondents see lines that either wrap at *their* window edges or extend off the window to the right and must be scrolled to be seen depending on their particular email client. I have gotten into the habit of 1) separating paragraphs with a blank line and 2) just before sending the message I select Options >> Message Format >> Plain Text (MicroEd) (which causes all paragraphs to become one long line each). I then select each paragraph like that and hit Alt-L to reformat it and *then* click the send button. Now I have figured the reason is that RitLabs considers that the Windows Editor is to be normally used with proportional fonts and that the number of characters is not an appropriate measurement (although they seem to handle it fine during editing). If there was an option to specify the final width by inches, cm, picas, points,... and if I choose a fixed pitch font so I could get that 75 character line, I would be very pleased. BTW, as you can see by my sig, I am using TB v2.11 and it *is* possible that some such feature has been incorporated into a more recent version. If so, I might (might!) be tempted to upgrade. -- Bill McQuillan <bill.mcquil...@pobox.com> Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.9.1 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
