Superscripts/subscripts in HTML messages

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Dave Minerath

In MS Outlook I had the option of using MS Word to compose HTML email, which
I liked to do as I frequently need to use subscripts and superscripts in
equations. Now that I've migrated to an all-Mac platform, I haven't been
able to find ANY Mac email client that will let me compose HTML mail with
superscripts or subscripts.

Writing in MS Word for Mac and copying/pasting doesn't work; the
superscripts and subscripts revert to normal text when pasted.

Any suggestions, besides making Word or PDF documents and attaching them?

Dave
 
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mmmmark

Dave Minerath said:
In MS Outlook I had the option of using MS Word to compose HTML email,
which
I liked to do as I frequently need to use subscripts and superscripts in
equations. Now that I've migrated to an all-Mac platform, I haven't been
able to find ANY Mac email client that will let me compose HTML mail with
superscripts or subscripts.

Writing in MS Word for Mac and copying/pasting doesn't work; the
superscripts and subscripts revert to normal text when pasted.

Any suggestions, besides making Word or PDF documents and attaching them?

Dave
Click to expand...

Rather than copying from Word, compose your email there and then choose
"Send as html" from within Word. This does essentially the same thing as
you describe in Outlook.

You might need to be using a Unicode font for the sub/superscripts to
translate across platforms successfully.

Good luck,
-Mark
 
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Dave Minerath

Thanks for the tip...that works pretty well, but it prevents me from being
able to digitally encrypt/sign messages; the default security level is
applied to the message and cannot be changed (the menu options are greyed
out.)

In an interesting twist, when I got the message looped back, Entourage
displayed the test graphics I inserted just fine but not the textual
subscripts or superscripts. The CC I sent to my Gmail account displayed
properly with all the correct graphics and formatting in place.

That may be a matter of font selection as was pointed out earlier.

Anybody else run into this trouble?
 
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Paul Berkowitz

1) You can make an extra account (or several) as a POP account for Sending
Only: i.e. fill in SMTP server but not POP server - with all the same
details as your POP or IMAP account, but with the alternate digital
sig/encryption defaults, also extra headers and different signature too if
you wish. Then send from that account. Replies will still go to the regular
one. (You can even set up certain people top always be sent from this
alternate account using my free script "Other Account X" from

MacScripter.net <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>



2) Probably the reason that you're not seeing the subscripts or superscripts
in the message returned to Entourage is that the message, although HTML,
does not include and website-based image file links nor any tables. It needs
one or the other for Entourage to call on the Tasman HTML editor to render
the message. The Tasman HTML editor is full-featured HTML, but for viewing
only (that's why you can't send these from Entourage in the normal way).
Without any <img source> or <table> tags in the HTML, Entourage's standard
editor (for formatted text only) renders them. But there's an imperfect
correlation: Entourage's built-in editor can't do things like subscripts or
superscripts, yet those don't trigger Tasman.

So what I'd suggest is that you try inserting a Word table in the document.
It would be worth experimenting to see if even an invisible table with no
content and gridlines not showing might do the trick - I haven't tried it.
But a table might trigger Tasman, and you then might see your superscripts
and subscripts in Entourage. Worth a try, anyway.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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