Re: [Evolution] How to highlight/color the background for particular words, in HTML

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

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On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 15:21 -0400, Swarup wrote:
> or what about this: if the background for selected words has been
> colored using another program such as a word processor, and then that
> text is pasted into an evo HTML email, is there a way to get evo to
> preserve the background color when it posts the mail? The background
> color appears just fine when I paste it into evo, but when I send the
> mail the color disappears.

That makes sense actually.  On paste it takes, and then renders, the
HTML version from the clip-buffer [which probably receives text/plain,
text/html, and who knows what else versions].  But then those effects
get dropped when the displayed text is transformed to the message.  I've
never worked with GtkHTML specifically, but it sounds reasonable; the
transform only knows about certain markup.

It certainly seems like a bug, but your version is *ancient*.  And the
GtkHTML is bound for the ash can anyway.

It would be interesting to know if the new composer would exhibit the
same behavior.

> On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 13:55 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 13:12 -0400, Swarup wrote:
> > > I am using Evolution 2.26.1. (I know, I'm sure it is quite an older
> > > version, but I haven't upgraded my Ubuntu since 2009. I'll be upgrading
> > > it when the new one comes out in April 2013!).
> > > In evo, is it possible to highlight/color the background for particular
> > > selected words in an HTML email?
> > I don't think so.  I'm on 3.6.3 and in HTML editing I can change the
> > text color but not the background color [which isn not a great idea
> > anyway as in an e-mail you don't know what the background background
> > color might be].
> > In the near future [next, or next next] release we are getting a shiny
> > new WebKit composer, so that might be more capable than the current
> > GtkHTML composer.

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