[FFML] Question about how to keep the text as is after submitted

[skychan]

One fairly simple fix is to open a notepad or better yet a text file and
paste it into that, then copy from the pure text format and paste back to
email.  It will remove all the fancy formatting that ASCII doesn't support.


On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:

> --- On Mon, 9/15/08, David Andersson <vizierz2002 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > directly pasted into the main body of the messages from the
> > Unicode .txt format
>
> I'm not sure if this is the problem, but you might want to try ASCII
> .txt, not just Unicode.  For example:
>
> > Ranma ½ (c) Rumiko Takahashi
>
> That 1/2 and copyright symbols are not standard ASCII.
>
> > way more powerful… I have... failed?
>
> This contains two types of ellipses.  You want to use only the second,
> which is comprised of three periods, rather than the first, which has a
> specific ellipsis symbol.  (Also, though this isn't causing the
> autoreject, there is no space after an ellipsis that comes in the middle
> of a sentence: e.g., it should be "way more powerful...I have...failed?".)
>
> > "All hail! All hail! Amen!"
>
> That line is using "smart quotes" (hint: see the difference between that
> line's quotes and the ones I just used).  If you're using Word to compose
> this, turn off smart quotes.  (Or, better yet, use Notepad or the like
> instead of Word - except, at the very end, copy and paste into Word for a
> spell check.)
>
> Also, though this probably isn't causing the rejection itself, you
> should probably add line breaks to make sure your lines do not exceed
> about 70-72 characters (or less).  Otherwise, some mail agents (like
> mine) will have people scrolling left and right as well as up and down
> while trying to read the story, which makes the story less readable.
>
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