Re: [Lurker-users] Text rendering?

[Wesley W. T. <we...@te...>]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:28:25PM -0400, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> "Wesley W. Terpstra" wrote:
> > Feel free to change your default.css.
> > I for one think fixed-width fonts are hideously ugly.
>=20
> I'm probably going to do that here.

then add:
	div.messageBody { font: ... }
to your default.css

> Many people indent paragraphs in
> their email.  Since that is one of the two primary paragraph separation
> styles in English, rendering opening lines of a paragraph as a fixed
> font just doesn't cut it for me :(
>=20
> eg.
> http://kevb.net:3000/lurker/message/20030718.210832.e4721850.html

Email has its own conventions which override English.
Those people indenting their email paragraphs are imo wrong. =3D)

Nonetheless, perhaps I will change the regexp so a single tab character does
not match at the start of a paragraph. However, then their message will just
be turned into a conventionally separated email.

> Of course, now that I'm looking for samples, I find that 90% of email I
> see in the archives uses non indented, extra line break paragraph style.

Since this is the convention...

> It also mungs patches, but that's trivial.
> (http://kevb.net:3000/lurker/message/20030721.212828.e188ce42.html)

This person should use attachments.
Inlining an attachment like that is a good way for it to get broken.

RFC822 and its mime successors will quite happily destroy a patch inlined.
I know that some lists don't allow attachments, but if they want their users
to suffer, that is their prerogative. There are better ways to stop spam.

--=20
Wesley W. Terpstra <we...@te...>