Please reply to list (Ctrl+L) 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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