[ale] Odd WTF question

[James Sumners]

I'll answer my own question. You are sending HTML mail. You blank
lines are actually:

HTML encoded version:
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px;
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;
-qt-user-state:0;"></p>

Just copied and pasted version:
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;
margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0;
text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"></p>

Any sane HTML renderer is going to render that as effectively not even
being present. Thus, you have "run together" paragraphs in your wife's
email client.

My recommendation? Stop sending HTML mail. It's hated for good reason.


On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 19:24, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you sure her email client is in plain text mode and not rich text/HTML mode?
>
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 18:54, Drifter <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
>> Recently wrote a longish letter to the president of my Condo Assoc. and
>>
>> copied my wife, who uses a Mac.
>>
>> As in this note, I placed an extra <Return> at the end of each paragraph.
>>
>> But when the email appeared on her Mac screen, those extra LFs had been
>> stripped out. The paragraphs appeared to have been run together and the only
>> clue about the beginning of a new paragraph was the remaining CR at the end
>> of the last line.
>>
>> When I hit the <Enter> key on this keyboard, I am assuming it sends both CR
>> and LF and another tap on the <Enter> key sends the second LF. Am I wrong in
>> that assumption? Is the Mac stripping out the extra LFs? or is something
>> else between the KMail editor and my ISP responsible?
>>
>> For the record, I use KMail for all routine emails.
>>
>> Sean
>>
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-- 
James Sumners
http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
CH:D 59