Re: [mv] Rich Text

[Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>]

At 05:10 PM 11/29/1999 , you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from "Peter Bingham" 
><Pete@pbingham.freeserve.co.uk>     ******
>
>I thought it would be good to send customers nice receipts in Rich Text
>(HTML) format. The formatting of the e-mail usually looks a mess when the
>recipients default font is not fixed-width. It would be nice to display the
>ordered items in a table, with costs subtotals etc in neat columns. I
>achieved little from messing around with mime tags, headers, boundaries etc.
>Has anyone out there managed to achieve this with the current tags
>available?

         Well, the minivend built-in plaintext formatting commands work 
great for me, EXCEPT when special characters are used (registered trademark 
&reg, copyright &copy, ampersand &amp, etc.)  Minivend considers those in 
its width calculations...  Which, I know, are HTML escaped values.  I don't 
blame it.  But, I've considered going to HTML e-mails, even though I hate them!



>Thanks in advance
>
>Peter Bingham : Easystreet Solutions - UK
>
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