[Tutor] formatting*

[Alan Gauld]

"Lowell Tackett" <lowelltackett at yahoo.com> wrote

> Well, not a lot of luck. What I use is Yahoo mail (whatever that is---a 
> "thick" client??),
> and thus far I can't find any tool bars that offer help.

A thick client is an application that runs on your desktop with built in 
intelligence.
A thin client is a GUI within a browser that has all the intelligence on a
server - typically a web app.

Yahoo is a thin client. As it happens I use it too.

You should find at the end of the subject line on outgoing messages
an option to switch to plain text. Select that and you should find your
line breaks are recognised. (HTML does not recognise your line
breaks and tries to leave formatting to the browser. The archive
page obviously gets confused by this! But using HTML to a mailing
list causes other problems too so its best to send as plain text)

HTH,

-- 
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/