[Petal] Question about Petal::Mail, aka stupid P::M tricks

[Bruno Postle]

On Thu 15-Jan-2004 at 09:42:59AM -0500, William McKee wrote:
> 
> While playing around with my P::M templates, I came to discover that I
> can embed my entire email inside of a <pre> tag for functionality that
> is similar to "normal" mail programs.

> This begs the question of why use any other tags inside a mail body. It
> seems it'd be easiest to just throw everything into a pre tag and use
> replaced span tags to insert data.

The inserted text is potentially variable length so this could get
ugly if you have a ready-formatted paragraph inside a <pre> tag.

If you use the <p> tag, everything will be nicely re-wrapped at 68
characters in format=flowed format.

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Bruno