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David said: > I would NEVER send HTML formatted emails, for a job or > any other reason. I adapted the T format to a bullet > list (using a dash as bullets) with space-indented > answers to each qualification bullet. I am guaranteed > of it looking pretty much the same whether the recipient > is using Outlook or rmail. One of the dangers of text format email is that long lines get broken in different places by different email servers or programs resulting in alternating long and short lines -- unless you preformat the text with short enough lines that no email server will break it into shorter lines. (I don't really understand WHY that happens.) So, my question is what is a safe longest line length to use? In this email I am trying a length of 60 characters, indented. If an indented paragraph were too long it would really be a mess after the lines got broken. Every time I send text email I pre-format it using macros in gvim (VI Improved on Windows). The J key is used to join lines, so I thought the ctrl-J would be a natural for breaking them. Since autoindent is on by default in gvim if the first line of a paragraph is indented each following line will indent too. I just added a macro for the ctrl-K key to add "> " to the beginings of lines of text I am replying to, as in the quote from David, above. Here is the text of my email formatting macros from _vimrc, in case anyone is interested, or wants to comment. map <C-J> 61\|Bhr<cr> map <C-K> 0i> <esc>61\|Bhr<cr> map <C-S> :%s/> //g Jim Long -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Single & ready to mingle? lavalife.com: Where singles click. Free to Search! http://www.lavalife.com/wp.epl?a=2716
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