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Traditionally I've always put a little ASCII (text) art in the sigs for my groups previously. GIO seems to strip any extra empty spaces out, when you try to do this in the 'message footer' option, thereby ruining the formatting of the art. Anybody have any idea how to possibly prevent that?

On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 12:41 PM, Dave D. wrote:

Traditionally I've always put a little ASCII (text) art in the sigs for my groups previously. GIO seems to strip any extra empty spaces out, when you try to do this in the 'message footer' option, thereby ruining the formatting of the art. Anybody have any idea how to possibly prevent that?

Dave -- You can try switching the group settings to Plain Text Only ("Message Formatting" block), but that won't work if the recipient's email client is rendering your work using a proportional font. So I suggest this instead:

Click the "hamburger" menu open at far right to show the Advanced Toolbar, followed by again clicking far right icon to open "Source code" mode.

Having done that, you must use a monospaced font, and inhibit the normal collapse of consecutive whitespace characters in HTML.?So what you will have to do is specify the font using some kind of inline CSS style (style="font: 15px consolas;" or courier or something like that should work) and then wrap the entire section of ACSII art in <pre> </pre> tags to keep it from collapsing.

Be sure to also check "Force HTML emails" and UNcheck "Normalize HTML emails" in your Settings.

If you do all that, I think it will work.

Good luck,
Bruce

Thanks Bruce I'll give it a shot.

Actually, the little section for inserting a footer doesn't have the text controls, like the other text windows. But I at least figured out how to get it to accept additional spaces... You can enter a blank character as a space, by combination alt+255 on the num pad, or for OSX option+space. That seems to make the server hold the extra spaces intact. But it takes some experimenting to get it right. I guess it could still be skewed on the receiver's end though by their font.

On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 02:47 PM, Dave D. wrote:

Actually, the little section for inserting a footer doesn't have the text controls, like the other text windows.

Sorry...I was thinking in terms of your personal sig line, not the group footer. Hopefully you found something useful in all that, though.

Bruce