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Re: [SLUG] Evolution not wrapping text


On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 21:36, Richard Neal wrote:
> Hai
> 
> Ive deployed Evolution in an office and I Ive
> been getting a complaint from the pointy headed
> people in the head office that the email we are
> sending looks horrible.
> 
> To cut a long story short we use HTML email formating
> and Evolution doesn't seem to have "text wrapping" on
> by default, so it either runs of the screen or you end 
> up with  a ton of line breaks.(the later is whats 
> happening.
> 
> I know Evolution supports text wrapping in HTML because the
> HTML signature has the usual legal disclaimer and the text
> wraps when you resize the screen.(I did the signature
> in Mozilla Composer and that has a text wrap option setting)
> 
> So here's the question how do you turn on text wrapping so
> when you compose a "New Message" in Evolution (ver 1.08) it
> on by default.

If you cut into the middle of a mail message watch the tool bar just
above the text, it will say preformat and not wrap.  Change it to normal
and all will be well.

-- 
Thanks
KenF
OpenOffice.org developer