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I send only plain text emails with Thunderbird. Sometimes, I need some minimalistic formating to facilitate the reading. I wonder how to insert automatically this formating in Thunderbird.
Is there an easy way (shortcuts for example) to obtain the following results? In a more general way, I am interested by solutions (addons?) to format plain text in Thunderbird.
Example 1: Title + box
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The Debian Project https://www.debian.org/
Debian Project News debian-publicity@lists.debian.org
October 27, 2014 https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2014/14/
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In this case, I don't know how to 1. align to the right some text and 2. draw a box of dash. Of course, pressing space and - a lot could create the same result but it would be very time consuming and the result will have likely some default (a dash missing, ...).
Example 2: Title
Debian switching back to GNOME as the default desktop
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Example 3: References
See [1] and [2].
[1] link
[2] link
ppr
Posted 2014-10-29T18:54:12.370
Reputation: 133
1Do you realize that, while it's in plain-text, the person viewing it probably isn't using a monospaced font? If they are, then all "formatting" to align things by using whitespace (spaces, tabs, etc.) is probably not going to display as intended. – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2014-10-29T19:08:07.217
@Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 ok but this is not answering my question in any level. I don't care about the fact the formating could lightly differ from what I see and what the other person see. I would like to do quickly and efficiently the formating of example 1 for instance. What can I do? Do you press 100 times "space" and "-"? – ppr – 2014-10-29T22:41:17.560
Usually, yeah, or use Tab. – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2014-10-30T03:08:10.837
I realise I'm eighteen months late to this party, but I believe there's an extension that lets you use an external editor for email composition. A full-featured text editor (I'm partial to emacs, myself, but there are plenty of options) will probably have features that make this kind of formatting much easier. – Darael – 2016-05-05T01:34:18.420
Are you on Windows? If so there's an easy solution in AutoHotkey -- happy to expand. – zx81 – 2016-10-07T21:54:04.807
@zx81 not... I'm using Linux (Debian) – ppr – 2016-10-10T13:17:09.147