Thanks a lot!
I downloaded Notepad2. It seems a great application. I also think it can
solve the problem of the nobreak spaces if step 2 in the next paragraph is an
option. I was telling that I had these problems, but actually it is a friend
of mine who did, and I try to act as an intermedeary. I tried to explain his
problems in this discussion.
What I'm thinking of now is how my friend could use Notepad2 fruitfuly, if I
tell him how to get it.
I wonder if he could try the following:
Can he
1. open and make ready to forward the mail that he wants to edit;
2. configure Outlook Express in a way that it will load the source of the
mail he wants to edit (and after that forward to a group of people) into
Notpad2 in stead of Notepad;
3. do his editing in Notepad2 in the much friendlier way Notepad2 presents
the source (its only already formatted text that he wants to extend);
4. select every paragraph separately, copy them separately and paste them
separately as a new paragraph over the old ones in the mail to be forwarded;
5. probably he should ajust the font of the newly pasted text since
Notepad(2) works in Arial; color and background won't be affected, I presume.
My mere question is the second one: it would be too complicated for my
friend, I'm afraid, to copy the source from Notepad into Notepad2, if he can
cope with all 5 steps to accomplish anyway.
What he does just now, is editing the HTML-mail itself, that results in the
situation that I described earlier: many spaces typed by him using the
spacebar appear to become nbsp-spaces, probably because the HTML-interpreter
encapsulates all edited texts within span- and /span-tags.
Would you be so kind as to telling me if step 2 is an option for my friend?
Thank you very much in advance!
Oriolus
"AlmostBob" wrote:
I use tables a lot, to align text, not the dumbass table generated by front
page that are composed of emspaces and nobreak spaces
(am going to leave off the leading s of each line so this does not show as
html, parts of my last post got rendered, oops)
html
body bgcolor="#eeeeee"
table width="100%"
Caption="This weeks totals"
!--repeat four lines below for each person--
TR
TD width="135" align="right"Name
TD width="135" align="right"Count
TD width="*" align=:"left"Comments (rest of page)
!--repeat four lines above for each person--
/table
/body
I like a free notepad replacement called notepad2, unlimited file size like
wordpad & changes the color of command syntax words so its easy to see if
you left out any closing brackets or quotes. and cut the text out of
incoming mails, paste them into notepad2 and reformat them, becuase I use
the same table a lot, really a lot, I have a template & cut n paste
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"Oriolus" wrote in message
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Hi AlmostBob,
Thank you for your elaborate explanation.
Would it be advisable then to compose my tests first is, say, Wordpad adn
copy that into the mail that I want ot forward? Will that way guard
against
unwanted nbsp-spaces? I would be grateful if you could suggest another
way,
if this is not the easiest way to get rid of these nbsp-spaces in my
texts!
Thank you in advance!
Oriolus
"AlmostBob" wrote:
The HTML generator in OE attempts to accommodate human typing.
html treats leading spaces and trailing spaces as non existent
and multiple spaces as a single space. tabs and multiple spaces must be
created from html entities
{space}d would display as d. when text is entered.
the received message would not match the senders displayed preview if
sent
as typed, the generator inserts a no-break space or em-space
appropriate to the text typed .
unfortunately if you type {space}{space}{space} at least 2 of them must
be
coded as no-break space or the rendered html at the receiver would be
only
one space.
and then later go back and edit out one or more spaces, or edit the text
so
that leading spaces are removed, the no-break space may remain. creating
a
received image that does not match the senders version.
The same problem the generator was supposed to remedy
is useful to keep telephone numbers on one line
(999) 999 9999 will always display on a single line
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"Oriolus" wrote in message
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I have a question about spaces typed in HTML-mode in OE (6.00.2600.00
/ XP
Home 2002 SP2). At numerous places my text appears to contain normal
spaces
but also 'locked spaces' (transcripted in HTML as 'ampersand-nbsp;'),
which
influence the preferred layout in a negative manner. I don't know how
and
when these 'ampersand-nbsp;'s appear in my text, but I don't want
them. I
want normal spaces that allow text to be broken to the next line. How
can
I
avoide these locked spaces arrive in my text?
TIA
Oriolus