Same happens for me, Frederick. Maybe you should save your
Word file as a text file and then cut and paste that.
Hal
On Aug 10, 2005, at 9:08 PM, Frederick Pollack wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Halvard Johnson"
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 6:10 PM
> Subject: Re: italics &c.
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>> On Aug 10, 2005, at 5:57 PM, Frederick Pollack wrote:
>>
>>> The words "complete," "protects," "energies," and "hurts" are
>>> supposed to be italicized. -- I don't know why, when I try to send
>>> something single-spaced, it appears double-spaced (and w/out
>>> italics).
>>
>> My guess is that you're cut and pasting MS Word documents into
>> your mailer. If you'd put your cursor at the end of each line and
>> right delete, the blank line would disappear. You might also
>> try sending as a rich text file (rtf), which might also preserve the
>> italics. If that doesn't work, you could inserts asterisks before
>> and after words that should be in italics. Some folks use underlines
>> (e.g. _italicize this_ ).
>>
>> Could be wrong, as usual.
>>
>> Hal
>>
>> Thanks, Hal. I am just pasting a Word file. It looks OK when I
>> compose it but comes out double-spaced etc.
>
>
Hal
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