simple formatting possibilities

[Jon LaBadie]

For so long I've used mutt and composed my emails in ASCII,
now I guess Unicode, that I'm ignorant of potential approaches
to a bit of formatted text.

Both a friend and I organize weekly online bridge games for
20-30 players.  My seating notices go out as simple text.  He
creates a 2 column Word document and includes it as an attachment.
Players who wish to see his seatings must use an external office
suite to view the attachment.

I don't like the attachment approach but the formatting (minimal,
bold, alignment,?) he uses and the 2 column arrangement would be useful.
Of course, my using constant width characters and spaces kills
any alignment my recipients would see with their proportional fonts
and spaces.

Is there anything I could use to create such "formated text", then
distribute it in the body of a mutt message having some hope that
the recipients see it correctly?

Jon
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Jon H. LaBadie                 jon at labadie.us
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