Re: [PLUG] Thunderbird questions

[Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com>]

Alan,

> So, still sticking with the editor(I have other questions!), can 
> someone help with the
> double-spacing problem?

Have you tried the option setting I mentioned.  It tells TBird to not
create a new paragraph each time you hit Enter, but instead just
insert a newline.  That should fix your double spacing problem.
I've mentioned it twice, but I haven't seen a response from you
about whether you tried it.  In case you haven't seen it in my 2
previous replies, go to the Preferences or Options of TBird and
then:

- Composition | General
and then:
no = When using paragraph format, the Enter key creates a new paragraph
or:
no = Use Paragraph format instead of Body Text by default


Does that fix the double-spacing problem for you?  At least in
newly composed messages?

--Fred
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On 10/3/18 4:02 PM, Alan McConnell wrote:
> This will be some comments on Mr Bennetch's post.  He wrote:
>
> Fred???s been doing great answering your questions, and in fact has 
> answered
> +this one as well but I wanted to emphasize what he said. How you 
> enter text is
> +dependent on your operating system, not the specific operating system.
>
>         This seems to be so: but in Linux, at any rate there are tons 
> of methods.
>
>         I mention two:  in emacs there is a complicated select method 
> which, after you
>
>         have set the modes correctly will enable you to type 'schCtr-x 
> 8 " on' and get schön.
>
>         And in TeX the method is quite different.
>
> +Sometimes that means it???s easier to do a web search for the 
> character you
> +need and copy-paste it in to your document.
>
>            <G> and <sob>  I'm afraid this may be so with TB.  Very 
> strange to find an editor
>
>            which allows bold-face and underlining and wild colors, but 
> provides no method for
>
>            writing cedillas, umlauts, and circumflexes.
>
>
>   Other times you can
> +directly enter the literal \337 through your operating system, which 
> seems to
> +me to be the preferred method in moat cases.
>
>         If I understand this correctly, I have to say this is 
> definitely not true of Linux.  Heck, after
>
>         Linux starts, it will, usually automatically, call upon some 
> variety of windowing system, or
>
>         desktop environment,  and then one has a huge variety of 
> terminals.  As I wrote above,
>
>         I am familiar with two ways of putting in diacritical marks in 
> Linux(the only OS I know):
>
>         using emacs, an editor I've used for thirty years, and with 
> TeX, which I've used almost
>
>         that long.   (I suppose I should check how it is done with vi<G>)
>
> This is easiest if you have a
> +keyboard supporting those characters directly, but can be done even 
> with a
> +standard keyboard. In olden times (like 5-10 years ago), I couldn???t 
> use
> +characters like \351 or ??? and needed to work around it, but now I 
> can spell
> +my friend???s names correctly in email because the available 
> character sets
> +support those expanded characters (even if getting my keyboard to 
> reproduce
> +them is sometimes a struggle).
>
>         <G> I gather you don't use TB.
>
> I think the question: does TB have a native method of putting 
> diacritical marks in has
>
> been pretty much settled in the negative.  Maybe the TB developers 
> will have improved
>
> their editor by version 65.
>
>
> So, still sticking with the editor(I have other questions!), can 
> someone help with the
>
> double-spacing problem?
>
> As always, thanks for the (attempted) help!
>
> Alan
>
>
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