Re: [Evolution] word wrap problems in 1.2

[Dennis Tuchler <dtuchler earthlink net>]

On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 21:54, Eric Lambart wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 18:44, Dennis Tuchler wrote:
> > Occasionally, I get e-mail without word wrap.  Often, when I edit a
> > mailed message as a new message, I lose word wrap. How do I fix that?
>
> I believe what you want is to select between "Normal" and "Preformat" in
> the drop-down list located on the toolbar immediately above where you're
> typing.  If you reply to this message and move the cursor to HERE (or
> anywhere within what I've typed), you should see "Preformat" on the
> toolbar.  That means that the line will be left exactly as-is, and not
> word-wrapped.
 I found it!  Thanks. 


> Often (but less often than in earlier versions) Evolution/gtkhtml will
> leave the mode in Preformat even when you are typing something new, so
> that whatever you type will not be wrapped.  Switching to "Normal" will
> fix that.
>
> Anyway, if you reply to an unwrapped message, you will end up with very
> long lines in the quoted text of the old message.  I think this is what
> you were talking about, yes?
>
> To fix this, simply go to the offending line and change "Preformat" to
> "Normal"...  and vois la, it is wrapped!  To "fix" more than one line,
> just select the whole area and then change it to "Normal".
>
> Similarly, if you are typing a message and want to include a URL or
> something else that should NOT be wrapped, make sure to set that line to
> "Preformat" so Evolution leaves it as-is.
>
> Beautiful, no?
>
> HTH
> Eric
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Dennis Tuchler <dtuchler earthlink net>