Re: [MlMt] SmartyPants

2013-11-26 Thread thfl
On 26.11.2013, at 02:39, Rob McBroom wrote: > What would SmartyPants do that can’t be accomplished right now using standard > OS X text settings. These settings can be adjusted for MailMate’s existing > composer window. > OS X text settings are useless if you write in languages that require d

Re: [MlMt] SmartyPants

2013-11-25 Thread Jeff Holland
Rob McBroom (26.11.2013) : What would SmartyPants do that can’t be accomplished right now using standard OS X text settings. These settings can be adjusted for MailMate’s existing composer window. I see your point. A test message using Markdown along with “smart” punctuation preserved the sp

Re: [MlMt] SmartyPants

2013-11-25 Thread Rob McBroom
On 23 Nov 2013, at 15:45, Brett Terpstra wrote: So it would probably end up being a preference that, when enabled, always generated an HTML body part... given that HTML would be generated just by using an apostrophe or double quotes, it would seem like a waste of time (and unpredictable to the

Re: [MlMt] SmartyPants

2013-11-23 Thread Erik Mueller-Harder
Brett Terpstra just wrote: So it would probably end up being a preference that, when enabled, always generated an HTML body part… Perhaps SmartyPants shouldn’t be linked so thoroughly to Markdown & HTML generation. It seems to me that an apostrophe or an ellipsis or a pair of smart quotes

Re: [MlMt] SmartyPants

2013-11-23 Thread Brett Terpstra
So it would probably end up being a preference that, when enabled, always generated an HTML body part... given that HTML would be generated just by using an apostrophe or double quotes, it would seem like a waste of time (and unpredictable to the user, by and large) to parse every email to avoi

Re: [MlMt] SmartyPants

2013-11-23 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 23 Nov 2013, at 17:57, Brett Terpstra wrote: There's no SmartyPants processing in the Markdown handler, is there? Is there a pref I missed? Nope, I've never added/enabled it. The Markdown handler is based on `sundown` (previously known as `upskirt`). My changes for the purpose of emails a

Re: [MlMt] SmartyPants

2013-11-23 Thread Jeff Holland
Brett Terpstra (23.11.2013) : There's no SmartyPants processing in the Markdown handler, is there? Is there a pref I missed? If not, I think that would be an ideal addition. I think it would be great, too. Jeff ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@l

Re: [MlMt] SmartyPants

2013-11-23 Thread Giovanni Lanzani
> On 23/nov/2013, at 18:01, "Erik Mueller-Harder" wrote: > > Brett Terpstra just wrote: > > If not, I think that would be an ideal addition. Half the point of writing > emails in Markdown for me is to have all the punctuation come out correctly > without having to think about it... (<- that

Re: [MlMt] SmartyPants

2013-11-23 Thread Erik Mueller-Harder
Brett Terpstra just wrote: If not, I think that would be an ideal addition. Half the point of writing emails in Markdown for me is to have all the punctuation come out correctly without having to think about it... (<- that should be an elipsis :) ). Oooh, *yes!* +1 — Ð

[MlMt] SmartyPants

2013-11-23 Thread Brett Terpstra
There's no SmartyPants processing in the Markdown handler, is there? Is there a pref I missed? If not, I think that would be an ideal addition. Half the point of writing emails in Markdown for me is to have all the punctuation come out correctly without having to think about it... (<- that sho