This has come up before if memory serves. It was suggested then that this could be done in livecode fairly easily.
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 2, 2021, at 10:57, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I did a quick search and probably found the same things you did. It does > seem to point to a font problem. I know you said you'd tried different fonts > but maybe another one would work. In general, Arial and Helvetica are very > complete but you may have others. You can use Font Book to examine them and > see which ones have the most extensive set of glyphs. I'd think Courier would > work though, and you tried that. Check to see if your Courier has a complete > set of glyphs, I don't think the older original Courier did but Courier New > does. > > If we were talking about LC I'd think it was a problem with 8-bit vs. 16-bit > translations but you'd think Mail would know how to deal with that. > > Also, I read that you need to restart Mail when you change the default font. > >> On 12/2/21 11:13 AM, Robert Earp via use-livecode wrote: >> Sorry about the bad header on my last post, but maybe that is yet another >> indication of the requirement for a decent list digests reader, at least for >> old dudes, or do I blame it on Omricon !! >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Sorry Jacqueline and Curry, I should have sent an acknowledgement of your >> previous speedy response to my question. >> Jacqueline and Bob, in Apple Mail I can only find an option for plain text >> when composing mail, not receiving mail, but you can choose the font used to >> display a message. I normally use Lucida Sans as its cross platform (from >> what I understand), but I have tried many others such as Courier to no >> avail. Regardless, I don’t think mail clients are designed to handle mail >> lists in an intuitive manner, which is why I asked my original question >> looking for a “great” GUI hopefully in LC ;-) >> Thanks again and kind regards, Bob... >> Robert (Bob) Earp >> White Rock >> British Columbia >> Canada >>>> On Dec 1, 2021, at 09:00, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com >>>> <mailto:use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >>> >>> From: Bob Sneidar <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com >>> <mailto:bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com>> >>> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> <mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> >>> Subject: Re: Reading LC List Digests >>> Message-ID: <cdda4e7c-5862-42eb-ae28-e3125cc50...@iotecdigital.com >>> <mailto:cdda4e7c-5862-42eb-ae28-e3125cc50...@iotecdigital.com>> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >>> >>> Yes it does. I use Apple Mail in this way and it works fine. >>> >>> Bob S >>> >>> >>>> On Nov 19, 2021, at 8:36 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode >>>> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>> <mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com><mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>>> <mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>>> wrote: >>> >>> I'm not sure why you're getting garbage in the posts. I have Thunderbird >>> set to show posts as text-only and I don't see the problem. I've never much >>> liked Apple Mail so I'm not familiar with its features but maybe it has >>> something similar to the above. >>> >>> -- >>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >>> <mailto:jac...@hyperactivesw.com><mailto:jac...@hyperactivesw.com >>> <mailto:jac...@hyperactivesw.com>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
