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

[Swarup <dinbandhu sprynet com>]

I have run the same experiment with a new version of Thunderbird in
Ubuntu on another computer: although in Thunderbird too one cannot
actually highlight/color the background of selected text from within TB,
but if such highlighted sections of text are prepared in a word
processor and then pasted into Thunderbird, it will indeed preserve the
color on sending the message and the recipient will receive the colored
text as well. Can anyone check whether the latest version of evo will do
the same?

On Fri, 2013-03-15 at 15:39 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
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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.