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  • Re: Outlook curiosity

    From nib@21:1/5 to Scott on Mon Mar 24 09:45:09 2025
    On 2025-03-24 09:37, Scott wrote:
    My 'house style' for Outlook emails is 12 point Arial, single spaced
    with an carriage return (blank line) between paragraphs. I have
    noticed: very often when I receive the reply, my part of the text has extended spaces between the paragraphs (visually maybe four lines).
    Any ideas what is going on?

    Are you writing in text only, but getting replies in HTML format?

    This happens to me (using Thuderbird). I create simple text e-mails,
    where CR does a new-line. Sometimes it comes back like that. Sometimes,
    if it's been read by a client set to work in HTML format, the reply gets re-formatted so that CR becomes a paragraph break.

    So where I have paragraphs set out by double CRs as you would in a text
    file, it comes back as 2 paragraph breaks, or a 4-line break.

    Very annoying. When I reply to the reply I like to sign off like:

    Cheers
    nib

    But to do that after it's been HTML-ised, I have to use shift-CR to get
    a newline rather than the default new paragraph.

    nib

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  • From Scott@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 24 09:37:04 2025
    My 'house style' for Outlook emails is 12 point Arial, single spaced
    with an carriage return (blank line) between paragraphs. I have
    noticed: very often when I receive the reply, my part of the text has
    extended spaces between the paragraphs (visually maybe four lines).
    Any ideas what is going on?

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  • From Scott@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 24 14:36:29 2025
    On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:45:09 +0000, nib <news@ingram-bromley.co.uk>
    wrote:

    On 2025-03-24 09:37, Scott wrote:
    My 'house style' for Outlook emails is 12 point Arial, single spaced
    with an carriage return (blank line) between paragraphs. I have
    noticed: very often when I receive the reply, my part of the text has
    extended spaces between the paragraphs (visually maybe four lines).
    Any ideas what is going on?

    Are you writing in text only, but getting replies in HTML format?

    This happens to me (using Thuderbird). I create simple text e-mails,
    where CR does a new-line. Sometimes it comes back like that. Sometimes,
    if it's been read by a client set to work in HTML format, the reply gets >re-formatted so that CR becomes a paragraph break.

    So where I have paragraphs set out by double CRs as you would in a text
    file, it comes back as 2 paragraph breaks, or a 4-line break.

    Very annoying. When I reply to the reply I like to sign off like:

    Cheers
    nib

    But to do that after it's been HTML-ised, I have to use shift-CR to get
    a newline rather than the default new paragraph.

    nib

    This sounds like a good description of what is happening. However, my
    emails are sent in HTML. Maybe there are different conventions in
    different emails? Should I be changing my formatting settings?

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  • From Scott@21:1/5 to peter@parksidewood.nospam on Mon Mar 24 15:46:04 2025
    On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:35:12 +0000, Peter Johnson
    <peter@parksidewood.nospam> wrote:

    On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:36:29 +0000, Scott
    <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

    On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:45:09 +0000, nib <news@ingram-bromley.co.uk>
    wrote:



    This sounds like a good description of what is happening. However, my >>emails are sent in HTML. Maybe there are different conventions in
    different emails? Should I be changing my formatting settings?

    I think the settings that you set apply only to outgoing email. You
    can't control the formatting of incoming.

    But it would be outgoing mail because it puts the received message at
    the bottom of the outgoing email. I thought you could change the
    received part, say to a different colour or font.

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  • From Peter Johnson@21:1/5 to newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk on Mon Mar 24 15:35:12 2025
    On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:36:29 +0000, Scott
    <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

    On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:45:09 +0000, nib <news@ingram-bromley.co.uk>
    wrote:



    This sounds like a good description of what is happening. However, my
    emails are sent in HTML. Maybe there are different conventions in
    different emails? Should I be changing my formatting settings?

    I think the settings that you set apply only to outgoing email. You
    can't control the formatting of incoming.

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