Replying to selective text in HTML mail

[Polly the Parrot]

Hi All,

Agent 5.0/32.1171

When receiving text in HTML mail it renders correctly such as:-

Sentence one running on to
sentence two running on
etc.

However when highlighting selected text and "R" reply, the text renders in
the window as :-

"Sentence one running on to sentence two running on etc."

(i.e. one long line across the width of my screen).

Is there a setting to render the selected text in the reply window for HTML
mail correctly?

T.I.A.

[Jim Tavendale]

On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:28:11 +1100, Polly the Parrot
<flatula...@deadspam.com> broadcast:

I suspect you are displaying the received message with "word wrap"
turned on and the quoted text in your reply is showing the text as sent.
If I'm correct there is nothing you can do,other than waving a sabre in
the general direction of your correspondent.

Regards,
Jim Tavendale

[Polly the Parrot]

On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:18:08 +0000, Jim Tavendale <jim@.invalid> wrote:

>I suspect you are displaying the received message with "word wrap"
>turned on and the quoted text in your reply is showing the text as sent.
>If I'm correct there is nothing you can do,other than waving a sabre in
>the general direction of your correspondent.

Thanks, will do! ;-)

[Cindy Ross]

>That would be a nice feature. I set my lines to 72 characters but
>forward unquoted a bit of stuff coming in with 80 character length
>lines.
>Always a bit of clean up involved.

Why? If the original poster was willing to just let it wrap, why bother
reformatting it when you quote it???

[Cindy Ross]

>Didn't you answer your own question by starting with "If".

I don't quite follow... Anyway, perhaps it would have been more clear
for me to say:
Why? *Since* the original poster was willing to just let it wrap,

why bother reformatting it when you quote it???

My point being, if the original poster didn't care where it wrapped,
why should you care enough to clean up their stuff? Just curious...

[Cindy Ross]

>Because it get difficult to read if the original poster uses hard
>carriage returns.

Ah, you know, I was thinking more in terms of people that post without
any carriage returns (just letting stuff where newsreaders want to do
so) as opposed to carriage returns in "awkward" positions...

>If I forward something I will try to make it easy for the recipient, not
>annoying.

Admirable. In my case, I will format my own stuff neatly of course, but
if the recipient wants to read the quoted material they will need to
take it as it is... Guess I'm just too lazy. :-)