Guest guest Posted January 30, 2004 Report Share Posted January 30, 2004 Select unwrapped text, so that recipients don't get broken lines, and the text fits their viewing window. 2. when quoting, include the name of the person quoted. >>>>>>Rory i am sure what you are saying. what is unwrapped text Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 30, 2004 Report Share Posted January 30, 2004 At 9:22 AM -0800 1/30/04, ALON MARCUS wrote: >2. when quoting, include the name of the person quoted. > >>>>>>>Rory i am sure what you are saying. what is unwrapped text -- Alon, First, let me apologize: I had meant to send these messages privately. This wasn't something you were doing. Wrapped text has a hard return at the end of every line. Usually hard returns are used to create paragraphs. Putting them at the end of each line prevents text from flowing. Unwrapped text is text that flows normally to fill the viewing window. If you widen the window you are using to view this email, you'll see the text flow accommodate. If I had selected " wrap text " , it wouldn't do so, but would only expand to the width of the window I was using when I composed the message. Example of a paragraph of wrapped text from one of Bob's messages: -- Dogma is an emotionally perjorative term for most people. Elizabeth Hsu uses the term " doctrine. " Long before I came across Hsu'swork, I coined the phrase " statements of fact. " Hsu does a nice job of explaining how modern Chinese evolved the " theory " of contemporary CM from the accepted doctrines of previous dynasties. While I think we can talk about the theory of CM, I agree with that much of this theory is based on doctrine or dogma. -- Example of the same text unwrapped: -- Dogma is an emotionally perjorative term for most people. Elizabeth Hsu uses the term " doctrine. " Long before I came across Hsu'swork, I coined the phrase " statements of fact. " Hsu does a nice job of explaining how modern Chinese evolved the " theory " of contemporary CM from the accepted doctrines of previous dynasties. While I think we can talk about the theory of CM, I agree with Todd that much of this theory is based on doctrine or dogma. -- If you can't see the difference, try narrowing your viewing window. Rory -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 30, 2004 Report Share Posted January 30, 2004 Rory, I don't get it. The texts you entered look pretty much the same, minor diffs in line breaks. BTW, where is it that you can modify this feature? Ann > At 9:22 AM -0800 1/30/04, ALON MARCUS wrote: > >2. when quoting, include the name of the person quoted. > > > >>>>>>>Rory i am sure what you are saying. what is unwrapped text > -- > > Alon, > > First, let me apologize: I had meant to send these messages privately. > > This wasn't something you were doing. > > Wrapped text has a hard return at the end of every line. Usually hard > returns are used to create paragraphs. Putting them at the end of > each line prevents text from flowing. > > Unwrapped text is text that flows normally to fill the viewing > window. If you widen the window you are using to view this email, > you'll see the text flow accommodate. If I had selected " wrap text " , > it wouldn't do so, but would only expand to the width of the window I > was using when I composed the message. > > Example of a paragraph of wrapped text from one of Bob's messages: > -- > Dogma is an emotionally perjorative term for most people. Elizabeth > Hsu uses the term " doctrine. " Long before I came across > Hsu'swork, I coined the phrase " statements of fact. " Hsu does a nice > job of explaining how modern Chinese evolved the " theory " of > contemporary CM from the accepted doctrines of previous dynasties. > While I think we can talk about the theory of CM, I agree with that much of this theory is based on doctrine or dogma. > -- > > Example of the same text unwrapped: > -- > Dogma is an emotionally perjorative term for most people. Elizabeth > Hsu uses the term " doctrine. " Long before I came across Hsu'swork, I > coined the phrase " statements of fact. " Hsu does a nice job of > explaining how modern Chinese evolved the " theory " of contemporary CM > from the accepted doctrines of previous dynasties. While I think we > can talk about the theory of CM, I agree with Todd that much of this > theory is based on doctrine or dogma. > -- > > If you can't see the difference, try narrowing your viewing window. > > Rory > -- > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 30, 2004 Report Share Posted January 30, 2004 Rory, I had the same experience as Ann. Your two texts looked almost identical. This makes me wonder if other, different factors are at work when some messages come across in annoying kinds of formatting. Factors involving the recipient's system, for instance. Julie - <snakeoil.works Friday, January 30, 2004 2:59 PM Re: BAD HABITS > Rory, > I don't get it. > The texts you entered look pretty much the same, minor diffs in line breaks. > BTW, where is it that you can modify this feature? > Ann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 30, 2004 Report Share Posted January 30, 2004 At 6:24 PM -0700 1/30/04, Julie Chambers wrote: >I had the same experience as Ann. Your two texts looked almost identical. >This makes me wonder if other, different factors are at work when some >messages come across in annoying kinds of formatting. Factors involving the >recipient's system, for instance. -- Julie, That may be, but the problem would still be solved by making sure the text is unwrapped. Rory -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 30, 2004 Report Share Posted January 30, 2004 But Rory ...you didn't answer my question. You're leaving us hangin' here... Ann > At 6:24 PM -0700 1/30/04, Julie Chambers wrote: > >I had the same experience as Ann. Your two texts looked almost identical. > >This makes me wonder if other, different factors are at work when some > >messages come across in annoying kinds of formatting. Factors involving the > >recipient's system, for instance. > -- > Julie, > > That may be, but the problem would still be solved by making sure the > text is unwrapped. > > Rory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2004 Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 At 1:44 AM -0500 1/31/04, snakeoil.works wrote: >But Rory ...you didn't answer my question. You're leaving us hangin' here... At 4:59 PM -0500 1/30/04, snakeoil.works wrote: >The texts you entered look pretty much the same, minor diffs in line breaks. >BTW, where is it that you can modify this feature? -- Ann, I'm not familiar with all the systems out there. When sending a message from , there is a box to check for sending unwrapped text. It's right below to the message frame. Twisting in the wind... Rory -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2004 Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 With respect to the wrapped text issue, I may have misidentified the problem. I'm sending this message in a way that should demonstrate the the effect of text wrapping in email messages. It looks as though all text composed be the various email clients is wrapped. You can see the effect of text wrapping by narrowing the viewing frame to within the displayed text. In messages, you can see the difference between wrapped and unwrapped text by looking at the standard " Chinese Herbal Medicine... " message immediately below the message. It only becomes an issue where the sender composes their message in a very wide viewing frame, say full screen width. Most people seem to use about a 2/3 screen width frame, and so the text wrap is easy to accommodate for the recipient: ie if the lines are broken, simply widen the viewing frame. However, if the message is composed using the full width, then for the viewer it may not be possible to accommodate, given the variability of monitors. So please compose in a frame that is half to two thirds screen width, not full width. Rory -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2004 Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 I just respond by using the reply function. You got a problem with that? ;-) Ann > > I'm not familiar with all the systems out there. When sending a > message from , there is a box to check for sending > unwrapped text. It's right below to the message frame. > > Twisting in the wind... > > Rory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2004 Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 At 12:36 PM -0500 1/31/04, snakeoil.works wrote: >I just respond by using the reply function. You got a problem with that? -- Ann, I'm saying it would be more helpful to others on the list if you were to use your email client's function of quoting with an attribution, as above. Some of the threads get very long and convoluted on this list, and tracking and remembering who said what is difficult. On occasion, I've seen more than a hundred messages accumulate in a 24 hour period. Rory -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2004 Report Share Posted January 31, 2004 Rory, I agree, and i think i usually do that...use the quoting with an attribution, as in this email. I just didn't understand your comment about sending email from . I use the reply function from the individual emails. So, in my outlook express there seems to be no tool to influence the wrapping function. I use the email sizing as you mention. Ann > At 12:36 PM -0500 1/31/04, snakeoil.works wrote: > >I just respond by using the reply function. You got a problem with that? > -- > > Ann, > > I'm saying it would be more helpful to others on the list if you were > to use your email client's function of quoting with an attribution, > as above. Some of the threads get very long and convoluted on this > list, and tracking and remembering who said what is difficult. On > occasion, I've seen more than a hundred messages accumulate in a 24 > hour period. > > Rory > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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