simple formatting possibilities

[Akkana Peck]

Derek Martin writes:
> Your only option for this which would have widespread support would
> be HTML.  It is *possible* to generate such messages and send them
> with Mutt.  It's just not very easy or user-friendly.

I agree (and the thread you reference is very worthwhile reading).
But be warned that people who are used to doing everything in Word
documents might not be as amenable to HTML as you might think.

I mean, Gmail (as well as local mailers like Thunderbird and Apple
Mail) give you an HTML editor, so that should be a no-brainer,
right? Right?

But a while back, I tried to get some people in a nonprofit I work
with to accept meeting minutes in HTML rather than Word -- and it
was a complete disaster. None of them could figure out how to edit
the HTML file, even when it was sent inline in HTML format.
I think the blockquotes used for quoting was messing them up.
Or something. It's not like you can get them to explain why they're
freaking out and saying "HOW DO I ADD MY COMMENTS?!!"

Hopefully your (the original poster's) experience will be better
than mine. It's crazy that in 2020, there's no simple rich-text
format that non-technical users on every platform can edit; but
that seems to be the state of things.

One possibility (this didn't work for my group, but maybe with
enough pushing, it could) is using some sort of WYSIWYG online
collaborative editor like Google Docs (or an open-source alternative).
You could probably set up your tables there and people could edit them.

        ...Akkana