On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 01:40:08AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> For so long I've used mutt and composed my emails in ASCII,
> now I guess Unicode, that I'm ignorant of potential approaches
> to a bit of formatted text.
>
> Both a friend and I organize weekly online bridge games for
> 20-30 players. My seating notices go out as simple text. He
> creates a 2 column Word document and includes it as an attachment.
> Players who wish to see his seatings must use an external office
> suite to view the attachment.
>
> I don't like the attachment approach but the formatting (minimal,
> bold, alignment,?) he uses and the 2 column arrangement would be useful.
> Of course, my using constant width characters and spaces kills
> any alignment my recipients would see with their proportional fonts
> and spaces.
>
> Is there anything I could use to create such "formated text", then
> distribute it in the body of a mutt message having some hope that
> the recipients see it correctly?
>
I fear I've mislead the list readers. I'm not looking to show some
thing analagous to a bridge game or hand. Much more basic than that.
Currently I send out an email with a paragraph or two of text followed
by lines like:
Table 1
N: Geo Washington (host)
E: John Adams
S: Tom Jefferson
W: James Madison
Similar lines to those would follow for 6 or 7 tables. We will now be
playing 2 sessions each night and I have to double the number of tables.
It would be nice to be able to do it in 2 columns, like:
Table 1 Table 1
N: Geo Washington (host) N: Geo Washington (host)
E: John Adams E: James Monroe
S: Tom Jefferson S: J.Q. Adams
W: James Madison W: Andrew Jackson
You viewing it in mutt inside a terminal window probably see two
nicely aligned columns. But readers using thunderbird, outlook,
etc. would not because of the proportional spacing.
As I'm asking about something for formatting, I threw on to the
dream list things like "bold" font.
Sorry for any confusion.
I probably will look into PGN because I do somethings email about
hands I've played, etc.
Jon
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