Re: Re: Manual line breaks in emails

On 3/25/26 1:59 PM, Dave Sizer wrote:
> Yes, this is exactly how I was thinking it should work, but apparently had
> difficulty describing what I viewed as the problem, so thanks for that
> Dale 🙂
>
> Isn't that exactly the behavior we get with HTML mail anyway? If the mail
> does not explicitly specify formatting, it is up to the renderer on the
> sender and receiver side to figure out what to do based on the device or
> client config.
>
> ...but I guess that's the crux of it. Plaintext isn't a markup language,
> so there is no such rendering step. And I would guess that plaintext mail
> purists would probably prefer to keep it that way otherwise they would be
> using HTML mail right?
>
>   	- Dave


I sometimes have a problem describing things as well.  I know what I'm 
thinking but putting it into text, that's a whole new can of worms to 
open.  Plus I try to remember, the person on the other end, has no idea 
what I'm looking at except for what I describe.

I'd think text purists would be fine with that as well.  They would also 
benefit from it.  They can also read plain texts on any device and it 
appear any way they want.  Basically, if done right, the same email can 
be viewed hundreds of ways.  Each person having their own settings based 
on their device.

Me, I'm not big on laptops, pads and such.  It took me ages to get used 
to a cell phone for something like Amazon and Ebay.  I still prefer a 
desktop over a cell phone tho.  I do like having my grocery list on my 
phone tho.  Kinda hard to drag my puter, monitor etc along with a power 
source to run it around the grocery store.  ROFL I'm sure there are 
plain text purists out there that use cell phones, at least every once 
in a while.  Thing is, with this method, if done right, the purists 
would have their preferences apply on their devices, as they want it.  
Everyone else can also have theirs, purist or not.

Now someone just needs to read this that can go to work on it. ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)