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Starbeam:

--- Quote from: Shecky on December 29, 2011, 05:25:37 AM ---One other option: if you and the recipient both have the capacity to insert/read in-message images, try doing it as a PDF. Horribly bulky, but it's absolutely accurate.

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I'm not positive, but I think that would be considered an attachment.  Best thing would be to fix formatting in a text file, and copy paste from there.  Otherwise there will be formatting issues of some kind, no matter what.

If anything, I'd say it'd be best to ask agents/editors if they have suggestions on what might work best, or if format problems are that big an issue.

meg_evonne:
Thanks everyone!

OK, I'm still getting my non-tech mind around your suggestions Gruud. I will need to play with that. It's the Control A and the 'word wrap' bit that is completely new to me. I'm thinking 'word wrap' is my culprit.

In the meantime, I experimented yesterday and this morning. The least impacted was the Control C/V from Gdocs and sent via GMail. So it will go as it goes. If it wasn't meant to be this time, so be it.

I will however work diligently before sending it off to a small list of agents. If I spent the blasted time getting it all ready, it's a shame not to keep sending for a bit.  The Hamlet YA is pulling me and I've abandoned a writing pal...  And I'm now researching ice caves in Renier... and that is far more fascinating and fun. 

Gruud:
Word Wrap is found under the Format pulldown in Notepad.

CTRL+A only selects all the text in the doc. You can just as easily select it all with your mouse, if that's what you're used to.

Let me know if you'd like additional explanations.  :)

Good luck!

Starbeam:

--- Quote from: meg_evonne on December 30, 2011, 02:32:22 PM ---Thanks everyone!

OK, I'm still getting my non-tech mind around your suggestions Gruud. I will need to play with that. It's the Control A and the 'word wrap' bit that is completely new to me. I'm thinking 'word wrap' is my culprit.

In the meantime, I experimented yesterday and this morning. The least impacted was the Control C/V from Gdocs and sent via GMail. So it will go as it goes. If it wasn't meant to be this time, so be it.

I will however work diligently before sending it off to a small list of agents. If I spent the blasted time getting it all ready, it's a shame not to keep sending for a bit.  The Hamlet YA is pulling me and I've abandoned a writing pal...  And I'm now researching ice caves in Renier... and that is far more fascinating and fun. 

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Word wrap is what automatically moves a word to the next line if it would've been hyphenated.  And actually, it might be worth it to try the Scrivener beta, if you don't already have the program, because the compile options for that actually have formatting options like hyphenation, lines for bold/italic/etc, and all that stuff.  I haven't tried it for emailing, but have for converting to .rtf and printing. 

Another option to try is changing from left justification to left/right so that the margins are the same with no white space from long words.  Not quite sure if Word works the same as Pages, but this might actually be the easiest option.

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