On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 10:13, Shi-Ming Chen wrote: > On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 21:06, Ben Steeves wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 04:10, Shi-Ming Chen wrote: > > > When I receiving html e-mail in Evolution, it seems that Evolution can't > > > change the line length by the width of view window. I made an > > > experiment by sending myself a html e-mail with a long line > > > (aaaaaaaaaaaaa.....). Then I got the e-mail, and I should scroll right > > > to read the long line. That is inconvenient. > > > Does anyone has this problem? > > > > You most likely created your horrendously long line while the format > > option was set to "Preformat" -- change it to "Normal" and your text > > will autowrap. "Preformat" assumes that you know what you're doing; > > Normal lets you be lazy. > > > That works, but I found that it will never auto-wrapped with a aaaaa... > line. The line must be separated into WORDS (aaa aaaaaa aaaaa ...). > Thanks for your opinion. As Dams said, you *never* split a word in the middle. > > As for received mail, HTML mail will always be considered "preformat", > > and will only wrap when the sender wraps it. Text will get wrapped > > "normal"-ly. > That is, I can't read auto-wrapped html e-mail in Evolution? HTML mail implies the sender wanted to convey a particular formatting. Reformatting it would defeat the purpose. Reason number #53 why HTML isn't a good fit for e-mail purposes! Ben -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/ascii / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
