Subject Re: formatting messages in the NG From Lee Grant <camilee@nospam.comcast.net> Date Thu, 4 Feb 2021 12:50:07 -0500 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Gaetano, Interesting. Thanks for the update. I, of course, like my settings as they are, but at least someone else will be able to find out how to do it if they want it. :) Lee On 2/4/2021 2:07 AM, Gaetano D. wrote: > > Hi Lee, > > I did find a way to get what I needed without impacting users of the web > pages: > > 1. go to account settings (right-click new.dbase.com - settings) and > tick the compose in HTML format > 2. in the Tools-Options menu, click the send options and tick the "send > as plain text if possible) > 3. just under the previous option, set the drop-down box to "convert to > plain text" > 4. still in that same screen, click the Plain text domains tab and add > news.dbase.com (to force conversion in point 3) > > Now you can compose with the full width of the display. You could use > HTML tags but not everyone will be able to read that format, so refrain > from using the HTML formatting and surround words with asterisks to > highlight them in bold. At least Thunderbird and perhaps other news > readers use that same syntax to format plain text. > > this is in *bold* using asterisks, it has no effect on the web news page > but in Thunderbird you should see that in bold. > > Cheers, > Gaetano. > <snip>