Re: st: How to "format" Statalist posts

[Nicole Boyle <nicboyle@gmail.com>]

I'm not an expert by any means, but I wonder if the email client is the issue.

Those that post from their iPad/iPhone with the "Sent from my
iPad/iPhone" use the default Mail client. And the trailing text in
your iPad post (I'm referring to the 1st link you provided in your
last post) was posted through Gmail, which is a server that seems to
have successfully resulted in non-trailing posts, at least according
to the experiences of Nick and me.

Also, your perceived association between text trailing posts and
iDevices might even be an attenuated one due to the issue of bounced
emails that you mentioned (no opportunity to submit a text trailing
post if you can't even post to begin with).

We could always conduct a fantastically biased study, wherein
Statalisters could self-report their email clients and whether or not
text trailing in their posts was an issue.

Nicole

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Richard Williams
<richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com> wrote:
> At 06:04 PM 9/2/2013, Nick Cox wrote:
>>
>> The Statalist advice is that people do pay attention to the content
>> and presentation of their posts. That's in their own best interests.
>> For example, I recently deleted a post that was so badly presented
>> that I doubted that a second reading would make clear what the poster
>> had in mind.
>>
>> But what you refer to seems a product of what mailer you use. Yet I
>> notice  that you use gmail, at least for Statalist, just as I do. That
>> seems to produce reasonable line breaks in continuous prose without
>> needing attention. I need to be more careful if presenting code, but
>> otherwise I don't think gmail is problematic.
>> Nick
>> njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> Conversely, I notice that when I and others post using our iPads, it may
> look ok on my email programs but on the web paragraphs turn into one long
> line (at least with my browser). Here are two examples:
>
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2013-08/msg00074.html
>
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2013-09/msg00057.html
>
> I also find that my messages sometimes bounce when using my iPad, and I
> don't really know why. My iPad is convenient but I suspect I should avoid it
> when posting to Statalist.
>
>
>> On 2 September 2013 21:04, Nicole Boyle <nicboyle@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > What is the correct way to "format" plain text posts to Statalist? I
>> > notice that Statalist contributors that don't manually insert line
>> > breaks (perhaps as demonstrated in this very sentence I'm writing now)
>> > have text trailing horizontally into infinity. These posts, IMHO, are
>> > not very reader-friendly.
>> >
>> > However, I've also tried to preemptively circumvent this issue by
>> > inserting line breaks (via carriage return), but things often don't
>> > work out quite like they should; line breaks occasionally seem to
>> > appear in places I didn't put them, thereby introducing a different
>> > type of reader-unfriendliness.
>> >
>> > Here's an example that may (or may not, since I won't know until this
>> > is permanently posted) demonstrate this, using the previous paragraph:
>> >
>> > "However, I've also tried to preemptively circumvent this issue by
>> > inserting line breaks via carriage return), <CARRIAGE RETURN>
>> > but things often don't work out quite like they should; line breaks
>> > occasionally seem to <CARRIAGE RETURN>
>> > appear in places I didn't put them, thereby <CARRIAGE RETURN>
>> > introducing a different type of reader-unfriendliness."
>> >
>> >
>> > So, any tips on how to better post to Statalist?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Nicole
>
>
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