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Marc Kupper
It's unrelated to my previous post about "Wrapping of plain text
messages fails when set to 40 or higher" but the whole reason I took
a hard look at the Outlook wrapping was because I had mailed someone
some data that was a series of short lines and Outlook sent the thing
as a single line. A poem would be an example of something that should
be sent as a series of short lines.
It turns out that Outlook 2003 (version 11.6359.6408 SP1) has logic
that looks at a message and if consecutive lines of text appear to be
part of a single sentence that Outlook will join the lines together
before writing the message to the Outbox folder.
For example - if I send myself the "In a Station of the Metro"
haiku
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
(Lustra, 1917, USA)
And then look in my Sent Mail folder I will see
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black
bough.
(Lustra, 1917, USA)
I tried to force the haiku onto two lines by prefixing the lines with
"|" ">" and "." and for all of them Outlook wrapped it onto
a single line. For example:
This is a huge pain for me and the only way to disable this function
seems to be to end each line with a period. For example
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;.
Petals on a wet, black bough.
(Lustra, 1917, USA).
Is there an option to disable this "smart wrapping?" I want my
plain text e-mails to be delivered exactly as I wrote them. I found
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=823921 but the WrapLines setting
controls wrapping as Outlook is taking the message from the Outbox and
delivering it.
Incidentally - Besides joining lines of text together it turns out
that when text is prefixed with something like ">" that this
"smart wrapping" is also wrapping text at 72 characters. This is
entirely unrelated to the PlainWrapLen setting.
I have no idea if "smart wrapping" is the correct name for this
function but is there a way to control it? In a way, it's pretty
cool as it allows Outlook users to participate on mailing lists that
use things like > prefixing and their text will always be well
formatted until they have a need to send lines of text "as is"
whether it be a code example, poem, or in my case I was trying to send
someone a table of contents.
TIA,
Marc
messages fails when set to 40 or higher" but the whole reason I took
a hard look at the Outlook wrapping was because I had mailed someone
some data that was a series of short lines and Outlook sent the thing
as a single line. A poem would be an example of something that should
be sent as a series of short lines.
It turns out that Outlook 2003 (version 11.6359.6408 SP1) has logic
that looks at a message and if consecutive lines of text appear to be
part of a single sentence that Outlook will join the lines together
before writing the message to the Outbox folder.
For example - if I send myself the "In a Station of the Metro"
haiku
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
(Lustra, 1917, USA)
And then look in my Sent Mail folder I will see
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black
bough.
(Lustra, 1917, USA)
I tried to force the haiku onto two lines by prefixing the lines with
"|" ">" and "." and for all of them Outlook wrapped it onto
a single line. For example:
This is a huge pain for me and the only way to disable this function
seems to be to end each line with a period. For example
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;.
Petals on a wet, black bough.
(Lustra, 1917, USA).
Is there an option to disable this "smart wrapping?" I want my
plain text e-mails to be delivered exactly as I wrote them. I found
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=823921 but the WrapLines setting
controls wrapping as Outlook is taking the message from the Outbox and
delivering it.
Incidentally - Besides joining lines of text together it turns out
that when text is prefixed with something like ">" that this
"smart wrapping" is also wrapping text at 72 characters. This is
entirely unrelated to the PlainWrapLen setting.
I have no idea if "smart wrapping" is the correct name for this
function but is there a way to control it? In a way, it's pretty
cool as it allows Outlook users to participate on mailing lists that
use things like > prefixing and their text will always be well
formatted until they have a need to send lines of text "as is"
whether it be a code example, poem, or in my case I was trying to send
someone a table of contents.
TIA,
Marc