Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 19 Jun 2005.
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· 2 messages · 19 Jun 2005 - 19 Jun 2005
Whenever I copy and paste, and sometimes quote, several sources of text in my eMail software, the recipient of the message gets the body of text in broken paragraphs. Would any of the experts here know of a technique to use when pulling text out of one source and to another for the finished message? I mean, this kind of thing occurs mostly everywhere within usenet, and it doesn`t seem to be the settings on any one particular reader. In other words, displaying ascii art in proportional fonts because my default is to display all messages this way. However, ascii art is not what I`m concerned about. I`m inquiring about paragraph structure and how to get them to maintain their structure when quoted in follow-up replies. Web sites with information to this problem would be helpful, as well as suggestions such as: 1. Don`t rely on the eMail software for quoting text 2. First use the MessageID number to send a reply 3. Next, highlight text from original message to quote and copy and paste it into Terminal or some other text editing program 4. Save text in ascii format 5. Insert file as attachment 6. Send Would that work? -- \ / ￜ / \ "Backward ideas" http://r.aguirre.home.att.net
In article <42B...@att.net>, Bier de Stone wrote: > Whenever I copy and paste, and sometimes quote, several sources of text > in my eMail software, the recipient of the message gets the body of text > in broken paragraphs. > AIUI, this is generally because different software makes different interpretations of what is used as an end-of-line marker. Some software comes from a world where the ASCII symbol <carriage return> is used to indicate the end of a line of text ; other software comes from a world terminated by <carriage return>+<line feed> pairs. Both worlds of software are aware of the other world and attempt to cope with the other worlds bizarre habits. And there-in lies the problem : there's no reliable way of detecting which world a particular message comes from. So you get message mangling. -- Aidan Karley, Geologist, "You are in a maze of twisty little presentation styles, all [different | alike]."
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