[MlMt] Fwd: situating a PDF attachment within a message

[David Pesetsky]

Just asking again since my earlier posting of this question might have been lost amidst the discussion of iOS mail clients that was going on at the time.

Don't worry, I won't try a third time — I do know better!

> From: David Pesetsky <pesetsk at mit.edu>
> To: mailmate at lists.freron.com
> Subject: situating a PDF attachment within a message
> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:21:12 -0400
>
> In Apple Mail, I am used to the ability to situate an attachment, usually a PDF, in a particular place within a message.  So I can write things like:
>
>> You might look at this paper:
>>
>> [PDF icon appears here]
>>
>> and then I recommend that you read this one:
>>
>> [PDF icon appears here]
>>
>> and you will be happy.
>
> — by dragging the PDF file to the appropriate place in the message I am composing.  It seems that MailMate has some Markdown-related way of doing this for graphic files, but PDFs seem to show up unconnected to message text.
>
> This is often important to me, so I am wondering if there is some setting I am missing, or some way to get MailMate to do this.
>
> I see old messages about displaying the actual content of PDFs inline, which is not what I am trying to do here, but haven't spotted this question.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -David