Message-ID: <001801c06f6e$c34c0a00$11fea8c0@dell>
From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <ben DOT jemmett AT ukonline DOT co DOT uk>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
References: <01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A4021E6E AT emwatent02 DOT meters DOT com DOT au> <000901c06f0b$aefe03e0$823c6420 AT dbcooper>
Subject: Re: Fonts & VCPI (was BASIC & EMS, nee Optimizing CONFIG.SYS...)
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 19:05:06 -0000
Organization: Jemmett Glover Software Development
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> I cannot select any fonts in text mode, priod.
Not even in Tools->Options...->Read->Fonts...?  Mail is displayed using the
proportional font specified therein, unless you select View->Text
Size->Fixed (which applies only to the currently onscreen message and only
for the time it is onscreen), in which case it uses the fixed width font.
Specifying Courier New or Lucida Console as the proportional font makes it
display monospaced text unless viewing HTML mail or mail from other than the
default encoding (other encodings can be customised in the same dialog).

> I have NO format capability of any kind in text mode. I cannot set the
line
> length,
Tools->Options...->Send->Mail Sending Options->Plain Text
Settings->Automatically wrap text at [  ] characters when sending?

> I cannot tell it to do jack in text mode. It is a piece of crap.
Well, uhr, don't use it.  And stop whining because you don't know how to use
your chosen MUA.

BTW, you may find that OE is stripping spaces from the start and end of each
line upon sending - some versions do it, others don't - in which case the
answer is to frame anything which has significant leading whitespace:

| int main(int argc, char *argv[])
| {
|     exit(0);
| }

Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)