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Re: [Evolution] Annoying Bug/Teiken

Lots of people suggest this, but I've never heard a satisfactory advice
on what to use instead. Could you tell me how to send someone say a
simple table if not in HTML? In a .doc or .xls file? HTML is at least
standardized, cross-platform and directly supported by contemporary mail
clients and web-mail services.


use one of the text based browsers to convert it.. (lynx, links, elinks,
etc ).


I was waiting for this "clever" advice. Did you noticed that majority of
e-mail clients - including Evolution - use proportional fonts by
default?
This makes ASCII figures completely unreadable for most users, so using
them is much more annoying than a HTML mail.

Yes, Evolution can be configured to use monospaced font, but it is a
nonsense to force people switching to these fonts because of the
occasional ASCII arts.

Also, I have no idea how to have gmail to use monospaced fonts.

Regards,
Alpar



you can use them as noted previously, or

$ elinks --dump http://www.december.com/html/demo/table.html
or
$ cat test.html | elinks --dump

$ echo "$html_source" | elinks --dump

etc..


$ elinks --dump tbl.html 
    With a normal border:                                        

   +--------------+
   | First  | Row |
   |--------+-----|
   | Second | Row |
   +--------------+

    With a thick border:

   +--------------+
   | First  | Row |
   |--------+-----|
   | Second | Row |
   +--------------+

    With a very thick border:

   +--------------+
   | First  | Row |
   |--------+-----|
   | Second | Row |
   +--------------+


$ cat tbl.html 
<html>
<body>

<h4>With a normal border:</h4>
<table border="1">
<tr>
  <td>First</td>
  <td>Row</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Second</td>
  <td>Row</td>
</tr>
</table>

<h4>With a thick border:</h4>
<table border="8">
<tr>
  <td>First</td>
  <td>Row</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Second</td>
  <td>Row</td>
</tr>
</table>

<h4>With a very thick border:</h4>
<table border="15">
<tr>
  <td>First</td>
  <td>Row</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Second</td>
  <td>Row</td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>
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