foggy
Valued Member
My limited understanding of email formats (plain text vs. html) is that the former does not 'impose' font styles, sizes, etc. on the recipient, whereas the latter does. (Whether this is only mostly true or entirely true, I don't know.)
Now, if I want to send an email to a friend who has old eyes and needs fonts slightly larger than normal, I have two choices, as I see it.
1) I can send all messages to him in plain text, and his client (I believe he uses T-Bird) will render the font in whatever he has chosen in TB's settings.
The problem here is that my emails to him tend to be longer than average, and I like including some rich text elements (bold, italics) to help with readability.
2) I can send messages in HTML and choose a font size that I think will be appropriate for his viewing comfort based on what font he uses in his emails to me (Times New Roman 12 or 14).
But I don't know if he could actually have settings configured that would end up making my enlarged font appear to him even larger than he wishes. And since I don't know what kind of computer he has -- and, therefore, don't know the screen resolution -- I may be messing things up royally by trying to finesse my settings to match his presumed preferences.
So, let's suppose he keeps forgetting to tell me what font he likes to see when reading emails.... Is there any way for me to compose an email that does have certain rich text, eye-pleasing features (occasional bold, italics and maybe an emoticon or two ) but does not force its font size on him? IOW, I don't know if there's a way to get his client to display some rich text elements while allowing his font size preferences to be displayed.
Comments? Suggestions?
Now, if I want to send an email to a friend who has old eyes and needs fonts slightly larger than normal, I have two choices, as I see it.
1) I can send all messages to him in plain text, and his client (I believe he uses T-Bird) will render the font in whatever he has chosen in TB's settings.
The problem here is that my emails to him tend to be longer than average, and I like including some rich text elements (bold, italics) to help with readability.
2) I can send messages in HTML and choose a font size that I think will be appropriate for his viewing comfort based on what font he uses in his emails to me (Times New Roman 12 or 14).
But I don't know if he could actually have settings configured that would end up making my enlarged font appear to him even larger than he wishes. And since I don't know what kind of computer he has -- and, therefore, don't know the screen resolution -- I may be messing things up royally by trying to finesse my settings to match his presumed preferences.
So, let's suppose he keeps forgetting to tell me what font he likes to see when reading emails.... Is there any way for me to compose an email that does have certain rich text, eye-pleasing features (occasional bold, italics and maybe an emoticon or two ) but does not force its font size on him? IOW, I don't know if there's a way to get his client to display some rich text elements while allowing his font size preferences to be displayed.
Comments? Suggestions?