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L O W L A N D S - L - 18 March 2010 - Volume 11<br>
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From: <span class="gd"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Michael Everson</span></span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:everson@evertype.com">everson@evertype.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Technica" 2010.03.18 (07) [EN]</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">On
18 Mar 2010, at 21:42, Lowlands-L List wrote:<br>
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> Michael, I wonder if it has something to do with your computer monitor
setting, because 9pt or 10pt Arial or Helvetica should really not be illegible.
Have you tried zooming in if your program permits this?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Come on, Ron. I've been
using e-mail since EARN days.<br>
<br>
I use Apple Mail. I have my fonts set to use Everson Mono at a size I prefer. But
you are sending out formatted mail with something set so that it is not turned
into plain text. And you had it set to, well, whatever "Normal" is seems to be 9-point, which is
too small to read.</span></p>
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> As for plain text, the upshot of earlier discussions on this was that most
people prefer to have formatting capabilities, such as bolding, italicizing and
indenting, also the use of colors.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">YahooGroups lists allow the
user to choose whether he wishes to have "Full Formatting" or
"Plain text"... This is evidently coming from Google, but I can't
find any way of altering any settings.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br>
> Also, many people run into problems with special characters and
right-to-left scripts in plain text.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Well, be that as it may, I
*still* can't read what you are sending out because it is too small.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br>
> Lastly, quoted text marking tends to disappear in plain text,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Not with modern e-mail
clients.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br>
> most people are too lazy to mark quoted text manually, and it would be way
too much work for me to go through everyone's texts, figure out what is quoted
and then mark it for them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Well,
is it necessary for this list to be moderated?<br>
<br>
Anyway whatever you do, please do not send 9-point Helvetica. It is painful to
read.<br style="">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Technica<br>
<br>
Here’s another experiment. By copying, pasting, copy and pasting via Word, I
am trying to send this out in Arial 12pt (which is not an option within the Gmail).
But I don’t know what this will do to quoted text that is indented or so.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Switching back and forth between plain text and html modes <i>is</i> an option in our archives (<a href="http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/lowlands-l.html">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/lowlands-l.html</a>). I am not sure if this is an option for email recipients. I am bccing someone at LINGUIST on this.<br>
<br>Regards,<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</span><span style=""></span></p>
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