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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 173877] Kmail html composer strips blank lines
From:       Tim Middleton <x () vex ! net>
Date:       2008-10-31 19:27:37
Message-ID: 20081031192737.A28231094A () immanuel ! kde ! org
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--- Comment #2 from Tim Middleton <x vex net>  2008-10-31 20:27:36 ---
This is a serious problem for me. It makes my outgiong HTML mail look extremely
unprofessional, and makes KMail look very bad (because everyone in my
organization knows I'm the only one NOT using Outlook, and my emails ARE the
only ones ironically that lately look like they are written by a computer
illiterate). 

The "margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;" embedded in the paragraph tags
effectively eliminates the paragraph spacing. Period.

I actually don't write HTML mails myself, but when replying to other poeple's
HTML email KMail does this to me. So, for example, when I reply to anyone in my
company who has emailed me.

To see the problem simply reply to one of the HTML emails you've received
(surely you have a spam or something handy). Write a few words with blank lines
between them. Then look for the message in your sent folder. Below the message
where KMail shows you the message parts, right click on the "HTML Document"
part and save it. Now view that saved HTML in Konqueror, Firefox, Opera, or
even Safari or IE if you want to. Every HTML renderer that knows about CSS
styles visually removes the paragraphs breaks.

In short, what you will not see is the text looking like it looked when you
composed it with blank lines between paragraphs.

(Interestingly the message looks almost okay in Lynx, which doesn't use
styles... except the quoted text has a blank line between every line.)

(And in the source I see all these -qt-* styles as well; I see that KMail is
using the odd tactic of placing empty <p></p> tag parse using extra -qt-*
styles between paragraphs; but also removing the margins from them. Is KMail
like microsoft now that they feel the need to add a bunch of platform-specific
tags to accomplish its purposes? Look where it gets us...)


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