[OS X TeX] A modest proposal

[Alain Schremmer]

I am not so sure now as, when I received it back from OS X TeX, the 
mailto: address was "live".
Please let me know if I am conforming.
Regards
--schremmer

Alain Schremmer wrote:

> (1) Once again, and I wish I could emphasize "again", I am extremely 
> grateful to you.
>
> (2) I have gone to Mozilla/Preferences/Mail & Newsgroup/Send Format 
> and, in fact, there was a place saying:
> When you send a message to an address with one of the domain names 
> listed below, Mail automatically sends the message in the correct format.
> I entered
>    mailto:MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu.
> which, I hope, should do it.
>
> Regards
> --schremmer
>
>
> Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> Le 17 nov. 04, à 14:40, Alain Schremmer a écrit :
>>
>>> (2) I am composing my messages in absolutely plain text with the 
>>> very rare exception of italics. Not html, not mime, no nothing.
>>
>>
>>
>> If you are using italics it's likely your message is sent in either 
>> HTML format (using Mozilla or Thunderbird) or RTF format (using Apple 
>> Mail). Plain text means really no formatting at all.
>>
>> That said I haven't noticed HTML tags in your recent messages (but I 
>> haven't watched closely). I think the problem is especially annoying 
>> for people receiving the list messages in digest format, or looking 
>> at the archives.
>>
>>> (4) I am using Mozilla.
>>> (5) Please someone advise.
>>
>>
>>
>> In Thunderbird you set up the sending format in two locations:
>>
>> - On a per account basis. Select an account, go to Edit/Properties 
>> and then, for each account, to Composition & Addressing. There, you 
>> have a checkbox "Compose messages in HTML format" (checked by 
>> default, I think). Uncheck it.
>>
>> - On a recipient basis. Go to Thunderbird/Preferences/Composition, 
>> then go to Send & HTML Options and click the button "Send Options".
>>
>> In Mozilla the situation is practically the same:
>>
>> - Identical for the per account setting.
>>
>> - For the per recipient setting, go to Mozilla/Preferences/Mail & 
>> Newsgroup/Send Format.
>>
>> In Apple Mail go to Mail/Preferences/Composing, there is a 
>> scroll-down Format menu with choices "Plain Text" and "Rich Text". Go 
>> for Plain.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Bruno Voisin
>>
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