From: Pavneet Arora <pavneet_arora@waroc.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: What is the prescribed way to add attachments to a list posting?
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:20:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1321971637.14617.10.camel@Nokia-N900> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBOmsavVDxOtB3F1wHGO+cnTzNrp-fjf7D9ygKrgFh+QMJ5xQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks, Mojca. I was looking at the web-interface of the archives. It seems that the attachments *were* including in the mailing list message, but were converted/stripped in the archives.
Regards.
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Sent from my Nokia N900. Please excuse my brevity.
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> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 14:17, Pavneet Arora wrote:
> > In my last posting, I had included the source and .pdf output as
> > attachments, but it seems that the source was included in-line and the
> > .pdf was discarded. Is there a prescribed way to include attachments?
>
> Attachments usually survive, but they may not exceed a certain size
> limit. Usually that is problematic - PDF documents may get very large,
> even the most simple ones usually exceed size limit (it depends on
> what engine and what fonts you use).
>
> I don't know why text attachment was converted into an inline one
> (gmail often displays simple text documents inline, but that doesn't
> mean that they were converted by mailman). Usually that doesn't happen
> unless a moderator did that or something weird happened :).
>
> Many people upload PDFs to their own servers and post a link if PDFs
> are large. Sometimes you can attach PNG with a screenshot of
> problematic part. You could also make an attachment in bug reporting
> software (http://tracker.luatex.org/) if you are reporting a bug.
>
> Mojca
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-22 13:17 Pavneet Arora
2011-11-22 13:24 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-11-22 14:20 ` Pavneet Arora [this message]
2011-11-22 16:07 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-11-23 8:33 ` Patrick Gundlach
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