is it possble to change the font of incoming emails?
My thinking is that on long email conversations, i'll be able to see what i have written by the font...
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My thinking is that on long email conversations, i'll be able to see what i have written by the font...
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Presumably though, if you changed the font of ALL incoming mail that'd change the quoted sections in the replies? So you wouldn't be able to distinguish what you'd written anyway?
neophlegm wrote:
Presumably though, if you changed the font of ALL incoming mail that'd change the quoted sections in the replies? So you wouldn't be able to distinguish what you'd written anyway?
i should rephrase... is it possible to change the font of each emailer on arrival... to help distinguish people?
how odd, apple dictionary doesn't recognise the word 'distinguish'...
You can easily set the colour of the message by applying rules per person (Preferences --> Rules), to change the font however isn't directly an option but you could run an Applescript which might be able to do it.
Regards,
Shawn
But that will change the color of the whole message. I think that what Paul is looking for is a way to change the appearance of quoted text within a message, to better distinguish who said what. I could be wrong about that interpretation, though.
Oops, yes - my Bad...
Possibly AppleScript then, not that I expect that to be that easy!
Regards,
Shawn
Thomas A Reed wrote:
i should rephrase... is it possible to change the font of each emailer on arrival... to help distinguish people?
No, that's not possible.
how odd, apple dictionary doesn't recognise the word 'distinguish'...
???
side topic reply. i'm not doing well on the 1st time explanations today, am i?!
it's in this box i'm typing in now, i wrote distinguish but this box that i'm typing in now, can't recognise the word.
in fact, ignore me, the apple dictionary doesn't kick in in this box, it's the spell checker for the apple website, and it finds it fine.
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Some people I frequently exchange emails with do that by always choosing a color for their outgoing text. Since I normally never do that, her (just to pick one example) email text is always a kind of dark lavender color. My responses are always plain ol' black. So as the email goes back and forth, it's very easy to tell the response start and stop points apart.
So in that vein, you could assign any text you write a color. Then when you get a response, it will stand out from the other person's response, assuming they don't pick up the same color you used.
i'd give kurt lang a helpful click but it seems i'm only allowed 2. it hasn't solved my question but i think it's worth a try and i'll come back in a few weeks or less or longer when i've tried it out.
but the question to you kurt, is, will this work with plain text, or must it be html? i'll find out soon enough...
It must be HTML. Plain text can't have any font, font size, font color, etc changes made to it. It's just a string of characters, with display left entirely to the client viewing it.
That means, of course, that Kurt's trick won't always work. It'll work if you're corresponding only with people using Mail, or other mail clients that support HTML mail. But Outlook, for example, is notoriously bad at HTML e-mail. Using HTML mail might cause an Outlook recipient problems. Also, if anyone always sends plain text mail only (as I do), all your font styling will be lost in anything they quote in their reply.
Thomas' note is correct. Text color will be retained only if the message remains as HTML. Some other folks I normally correspond with always change their outgoing email to plain text. So then the entire message becomes one font in black.
so , back to plain text , i'm looking at font changes (not colour) with apple script... maybe?
But you'll still suffer the same problem. The only way to maintain font styling within heavily nested quoted material within one single e-mail message is for all the e-mail styling to remain intact for the entire conversation. It would be difficult to reliably parse the text and change the font styles if they were lost, and that's assuming that you can use AppleScript to make changes to received e-mail messages, which I don't think is the case.
You'd be better off to simply not include so much quoted material in single e-mail messages and to set mail to organize by conversations (in the View menu) and always include related messages (in Mail -> Preferences -> Viewing).
thanks for that. actually, it is already how i'm viewing - organised by conversation, with include related ticked too.
im wondering if there is "an app for that"
is it possble to change the font of incoming emails?