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From: "Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: filling more narrowly --- or unfilling -- for export to email, upon ascii export
Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 09:59:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v836xj44.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJcAo8tmPC0OwmOcAswROnvfiZaBRM=a3X7yGfX=r6+ZZKeLkQ@mail.gmail.com>	(Samuel Wales's message of "Wed, 22 May 2024 00:53:23 -0700")

Hi Samuel,

On Wednesday, 22 May 2024 at 00:53, Samuel Wales wrote:
> unfilled paragraphs seems to be the norm in email these days for
> nontechnical folk.  but org has plain lists and things, which need
> org-style unfilling.

Given the profusion of potential devices for reading email and their
differing sizes, I have found that unfilled paragraphs are best in
general although I do fill for posts to mailing lists like this one and
newsgroups as that is the convention (arguably).

However, if there is formatting that you wish to preserve (lists,
equations [which often is the case for my emails to my research group,
say]), the only real option (as much as I dislike it) is to use HTML.  I
write my email using org syntax and then invoke

  M-x org-mime-htmlize RET

just before sending.

-- 
: Eric S Fraga, with org release_9.6.23-1320-g1be2f9 in Emacs 30.0.50

  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-22 10:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-22  7:53 filling more narrowly --- or unfilling -- for export to email, upon ascii export Samuel Wales
2024-05-22  9:59 ` Fraga, Eric [this message]
2024-05-22 12:36 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-05-24  4:03   ` Samuel Wales
2024-05-25  7:11     ` Samuel Wales

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