Bob Blick wrote:
> And I suggest again, email the code to yourself and see if it looks
> OK.
> That doesn't mean it'll look OK on every reader or after going through
> every gateway, but if it gets mangled you will have a chance to make
> it
> right before sending it to the list.

Your mail client viewer may do some of the inverse mangling that your sender
does.  I suggesting saving the message to a file before you send it, then
look at it with a text editor.  That will give you a better idea how mail
viewers set to plain text and fixed pitch font will see your message.

While you're at it, if you see lots of "=" at the end of lines, then fix
your mailer setting to send plain text instead of quoted printable.  That
can also cause unexpected formatting in others' viewers.

> I use UltraEdit. It will convert from tabs to spaces and back. I
> imagine every good editor has features like that. So even if you
> prefer tabs,
> the chunk you send to the list should be converted to spaces first.

I use UltraEdit too, and one frustration is that you can set arbitrary tab
stops for the TAB key when inserting tab characters, but not when having the
TAB key cause the equivalent spaces to be inserted.  In that mode, you can
only have the tab stops at regular intervals.  Argh.

Now that UltraEdit has Javascript capability, it may be possible to set up
something to get arbitrary tab stops with spaces inserted, but geesh, I
really don't want to spend my time having to write code to "fix" a tool for
something that is hardly a obscure capability.  Typewriters have had this
capability for long before there were computer text editors.


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