[MlMt] Mailmate-sent emails not creating satisfying paragraph spacing in other emailers

[Charlie Clark]

On 26 Feb 2026, at 12:50, Jason Davies wrote:

> Most emailers that do styled (or 'rich' as it's usually called) text 
> do it with WYSIWYG – you select text and make it bold, and so on. 
> Mailmate simply uses markdown (plain text with simple mark-up) which 
> is converted to html for other emailers to read.

Actually, HTML is most definitely **not** WYSIWYG and was **never** 
supposed to be. This is one of the many reasons why HTML was **not** a 
good choice to use for e-mail. But that battle was fought (and lost) 
years ago…

For some Mac context, here's a video with Steve Jobs showing off "WYSWYG 
e-mails" in 1990, before HTML even existed, though Tim Berners-Lee would 
develop HTML on a similar system. At the time they were using Postscript 
but I think they went onto RTF later for a more universal format.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrTag7nSHlw

Charlie

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