Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Punctuation and readability

[Virgil Huston (virgil.huston1955]

Another thing is typing your text into a text editor. Word processors like
Microsoft Word are notorious for this and it is a problem that has never
been solved, although I agree one would think it would have been by now.
But programs like Word have their own markup. Text editors (I recommend
Notebook++ and it is open source) have minimal markup. I use text editors
more than word processors these days. You can usually save in .txt or .rtf.
Or, as was also suggested, type your messages directly into your email. I
use a text editor when I want to save what I write.

Virgil

On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 7:04 PM Diana Leafe Christian <diana [at] ic.org> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I believe I know what causes this, as Fred explained it to me once. If you
> write your email in another document ahead of time and paste it into your
> email, many punctuation marks come out weird and with ?'s instead of what
> you had.
>
> But if you type your message directly into your email, they come out
> normal, as in Glen Ecklund's email below.
>
> Diana
>
> > On Feb 27, 2023, at 5:55 PM, Glen Ecklund <glen.ecklund [at] gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Looks to me like it handles ASCII quotes just fine. What it doesn't
> handle,
> > I'm guessing, is fancy left/right quotes generated by other programs. Are
> > you composing in Word, and then pasting into email? Or maybe your mail
> > program generates fancy quotes.
> >
> > *Glen Ecklund*
> > 711 S. Orchard St., #303
> > Madison, WI 53715
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 4:52 PM Glen Ecklund <glen.ecklund [at] gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Testing some punctuation:
> >> "Double Quotes."
> >> 'Apostrophes.'
> >> `Back ticks.`
> >>
> >> *Glen Ecklund*
> >> 711 S. Orchard St., #303
> >> Madison, WI 53715
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
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