[pct-l] Hard returns [OT]

[Tortoise]

I don't know about you but I choose to use ThunderBird and download all 
my email and view my email with TB.
As I've said, some messages don't display properly in TB, and that 
generally is my problem, not the sender's.

I don't recall an instance of receiving an email with a very wide table 
that did not display properly. OTOH, when some people send simple 
tables, the spacing is off when I view it -- probably because the 
message was sent with fixed width text, and TB is displaying it in 
proportional width text.

There's another glitch in TB that doesn't display some characters 
correctly which seems to be a function of the specific version of font 
and character encoding used in the message. This is a known defect in TB 
and we TB users bitch to Mozilla about it; not the senders of the 
various emails.

Happy trails.

Tortoise

Because truth matters"



Gary Wright wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2010, at 11:26 PM, Tortoise wrote:
>
>   
>> that is a problem with your email program.
>>
>> I used ThunderBird and it does NOT properly wrap some emails. It is a 
>> ThunderBird defect, not the sender's.
>>     
>
> It is not that simple.  There are some situations where the
> text was explicitly created with long lines that should not be
> wrapped (tables of data for example).  Wrapping them  (instead
> of providing  scroll bar) is the wrong thing to do in this
> situation.  Computer programming code is another example where
> auto-wrapping can hinder rather than help.
>
> THe best solution I've seen mentioned is to have the viewing
> program (the email client or web browser) provide an explicit
> option to let the viewer decide what is the best way to view
> the long text (wrapped or scrolled).
>
> Radar
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