Well, you could use quoted-printable, but that looks even *worse* on
client software that doesn't understand it.  You get all these =3E
things scattered around the message.  Enriched-text would look just like
normal email on clients that don't grok it.


Lex




"Steve Wart" <swart at home.com> wrote:
> Rather than "enriching" the plain-text part of the e-mail, why not
modify
> the fileout format (say, to XML) so that it is impervious to the whims
of
> end-of-line anachronisms?
> 
> Then people can turn line wrapping on again in their mail clients.
> 
> Steve
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lex Spoon [mailto:lex at cc.gatech.edu]
> > Sent: November 11, 1999 1:49 PM
> > To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> > Subject: Re: page width
> >
> >
> > Bijan Parsia <bparsia at email.unc.edu> wrote:
> > > At 9:19 PM -0500 11/10/99, Eric Ulevik wrote:
> > >
> > > >    Obligatory on-topic observation: Can't I read HTML email in
> > Squeak?
> > > > If not, should be easy, right?
> > >
> > > Right now, you can't. But you're right that it's pretty easy to
hack
> > up.
> > >
> >
> > Celeste does this.  I don't remember which changeset.  You're right
that
> > it's very simple, given an email reader and an HTML formatter and a
> > wonderful language to tie them together with.
> >
> > I think I'd rather read enriched-text email, however.  enriched text
is
> > more minimal, only having basic things like boldface and centering.
> > Plus enriched text can *always* be converted to a text-only format.
> >
> > Lex
> >

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