Re: [Evolution] composer line length

[Taco de Vries <taco keytop xs4all nl>]

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 23:57, guenther wrote:
> > Oops, I think I better sign up for "counting 101" :-)
> > You are correct it is 71. 
> > 
> > I stil have 2 problems with this though:
> > 
> > 1. what if I need to get something out that has more characters
> >    on a line than 72, I do think this lenght should be a preference.
> 
> Well, if you want text/plain and longer lines, select "Preformat" as
> paragraph style.

I prefer plain text as much as possible, but this is an option yes

> 
> HTML mail will expand to the limits of the window -- but maybe depends
> on the MUA. ;)
> 
> 
> > 2. as soon as I start using my own fonts, it is not 72 anymore but
> >    more like 39 which is totally unacceptable.
> 
> I'm not entirely sure on this. But "using your own font" feels like it
> will only make sense for HTML mail. ;)
> 
> If you use a custom font, just for viewing pleasure while typing, the
> font will be wrapped on the window edges. Sending the mail *will* set
> the line length to 72.

hmm I set a custom font for my reading pleasure while reading, I like
the message in the preview pane to have a somewhat larger font,

This also seems to affect the font used in the composer... 


> 
> As you probably have seen by your first mail, which apparently had
> *more* than your mentioned 36 chars:

NoI had not noticed that, just tested that and you are correct :-)

> 
> > 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890
> >                   1                 2                   3             a 
> > b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z a
> 
> You even can see, that you used a non-monospaced font, which is not the
> best option when typing text/plain mails.

Correct, I have just setup Evolution as my reader, and am playing with
the settings untill I am satisfied with them, I need to change the font
to something better
> 
> ...guenther

Taco
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