Comments on: weird spacing in mail/os 10.4.11

Question: weird spacing in mail/os 10.4.11

cg2 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:42:05 -0800

I just updated my mac OS to 10.4.11 and now whenever I use mail (either typing in or pasting into it) the spacing gets all weird - I lose line breaks, I lose spaces in between words. Please help.

By: kpmcguire

kpmcguire — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:49:34 -0800

Just read on daring fireball this morning:

http://daringfireball.net/2008/03/mail_quoting_bug

Summary: Either implement his fixes or switch to plain text mode.

By: alan

alan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:12:27 -0800

Kpmcguire, I think you've misunderstood the Daring Fireball article. It's about an extra line break inserted into a message when plain text mode is on.

Cg2's problems sound both display related and more persistent. (Unfortunately, I have no idea why that might be the case)

By: kpmcguire

kpmcguire — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:40:33 -0800

Whoops. You're totally right, alan.

By: kindall

kindall — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:36:42 -0800

I had a similar problem once with OmniWeb and it turned out to be font-related. Do you perchance have a Classic system folder installed, and does it have a Fonts folder? If so, open Font Book, right-click Classic Mac OS, and choose Disable.

By: nessahead

nessahead — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:18:13 -0800

I had this problem with Firefox and it also turned out to be a font problem.

I backed up my fonts and used Linotype Font Explorer X to clean my system folders. It's free. Linotype -> Tools -> Clean System Fonts folders ...

Now I keep my custom fonts in a separate Fonts folder in my user folder and activate them using Linotype. No problems since.