Re: Attachments and HTML (was Re: XP & malware)

[Paul Breeze paul.breeze@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Jordan

I've just returned and haven't been following this thread but I use NB
exclusively now and convert into RTF regularly. For me that has worked
well although there can be hiccups if there are stray NB/Xy embedded
instructions. Then it becomes a matter of finding and eliminating them.
 I export large files containing tables and footnotes without
difficulty. Is that of any help?


Best wishes

Paul

On 25/05/2012 17:18, J R FOX wrote:

Thanks for that clarification, Carl.

I'm still hoping that you or another Nota Bene user has a
response to my query about how good the built-in NB conversion
facility may be. (Unless I'm mistaken that there *is* one.)
I'm not on the NB list, as yet.


  Jordan


--- On Thu, 5/24/12, Carl Distefano wrote:


Reply to note from J R FOX
Thu, 24 May 2012
12:55:02 -0700 (PDT)

Attachments are permitted on the XyWrite list; there is a
5MB limit on
message size (the smaller, the better, needless to say).
Note that
attached files are not preserved in the Freelists.org
Web-based
archive (links to the attachments appear below the archived
message,
but they go dead), but attached files are preserved, and
images are
visible, on the XySearch archive (a very nice feature).
Compare these
two versions of the same archived message from 10 November
2011:

http://www.freelists.org/post/xywrite/running-Xy-on-a-Mac,18
(dead "PNG image" links)

http://tinyurl.com/xysearch/2011/msg00544.htm
(attached images displayed)


... just as we are not supposed to post here using
HTML formatting, with fonts, sizes of print and the

like.

I've given up reminding people about this -- and there are
chronic
violators -- but, yes, plain text is still the gold
standard. I, for
one, read my list messages in XyWrite, and HTML requires an
extra
step, whether stripping out the tags, or viewing the message
in a
browser, or just slogging through the message, tags and all.
It's a
pain. (We've enabled a list option to "humanize" HTML
attachments,
i.e., convert them to plain text, but it has no effect on
inline
HTML.)

--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx