Re: [hylafax-users] Form Feed Problems With Faxmail -

[Gil Spaier <gspaier@lausterradu.com>]

On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 14:42, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 01:14:07PM -0400, Gil Spaier wrote:
> > I am using Hylafax's build in faxmailer to send faxes from an email
> > client (pine) through sendmail on RedHat 8.0.
> 
> Thank you for calling HylaFAX technical support; my name is Jay.
> 
> :-)
Hardcore, unlike those faxtosend or winfax guys with there "weekends".
> 
> > The problem is the user (My Dad) is unhappy with the way page-breaks
> > show up in the faxes.  He does not want to manually put in spaces
> > because this will make the email look bad.  Is there any way to have the
> > faxmailer reformat pages so paragraphs do not get broken up.
> > 
> > Or is there a way to place Form Feeds into a text file so fax machines
> > will automatically advance to the next page,while leaving emails looking
> > intact.
> > 
> > Or is the dream of sending well formated faxes and emails from the same
> > client program and same address book still to go unrealized.
> 
> I gather the problem he's having is that the faxmail script is breaking
> paragraphs in the middle, and he'd prefer that it not do that; he'd
> like to see it break inbetween paragraphs? 

Yes this is right.

>  That's not always a trivial
> thing even to *define*, much less to implement (akin to word-wrap
> algorithms that trash webpage [and email :-)]  column widths when you
> string-a-whole-buncha-words-together-with-dashes.

Hmmm, how about only breaking when there are two "RETURNS"?
Or manually defining them with special characters.

There must be something easy?
Is there not something already implemented?

> 
> But let's make sure we know what the request is, first.  :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra

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