simple formatting possibilities

Paul Gilmartin PaulGBoulder at AIM.com
Thu Aug 27 18:33:49 UTC 2020


(Plus one Bcc:)

On 2020-08-26, at 23:40:08, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 
> 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.
>  
The needed symbols seem to exist in Unicode:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_cards_in_Unicode

> 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.
>  
One thing I think of is a spreadsheet, packaged as a .csv.  It's
marginally legible as text or either Windows Excel or MacOS
Numbers should render it.  An alternative is the attractively
priced LibreOffice.

> 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?
>  
Is there an example to try?  If it exists as .xlsx it could
be exported as .csv

-- gil



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