Single v.s. double-spacing in OE 6
Many thanks for your suggestions and explanations.
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Cheers, Don
"Bob" wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:10:51 -0500, "Robert Aldwinckle"
wrote:
I realize that if you work in the plain text format, this is not a problem;
but is there any way to set OE 6 to automatically get single-spacing when you
hit "enter" and are using the HTML format?
It's an HTML issue. Return in OE generally gives an HTML paragraph
break. You can alter the paragraph spacing use CSS code. Click on the
"source" tab at the bottom of the Create Message window and you will
see a section of HTML code that looks something like this near the top
of the message:
--------existing --------------
HTMLHEAD
META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR
STYLE/STYLE
/HEAD
--------existing --------------
Change the style section (only) to look like this:
STYLE
!--
p {text-indent: 10; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 3;
margin-bottom: 3 }
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/STYLE
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The "p" is the p element definition that you are changing. The other
parameters in the definition can be adjusted as you wish. Sizes are in
points with the exception of line-height, which is actually what we
used to call line spacing. 200% is double spacing, 100% is single
spacing, etc.
One more thing... I noticed in my version of OE, hitting return
results in a div tag, not a p . So, I might decide to make the
changes to the style section like this:
STYLE
!--
p {text-indent: 10; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 10; margin-top: 3;
margin-bottom: 3 }
div {text-indent: 10; line-height: 200%; margin-left: 10;
margin-top: 3; margin-bottom: 3 }
--
/STYLE
There are lots of other things you can do in CSS. Look into CSS if you
like. You might run into some problems with existing CSS & HTML if you
are replying to messages formatted by some other mail program. (I find
message from any MS application or any web based email tend to be
trouble). That discussion is beyond the scope here.
If you want to do this all the time, save a blank message with your
CSS definitions in it as OE Stationary - then use the Format / Apply
Stationary whenever you start an email message to get your favorite
formatting.
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