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E reg light blue XJS £1800 at local dealer white W124 3.0 diesel, one big door dent, one scabby arch, 12 months ticket, £550, both in Warrington.

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Elder
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Audi V8.

Short ticket.

£575ono.

It probably is really good that I have a company hack these days.

I've already bought one vehicle this weekend, buying 2 could be seen as greedy.

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SteveH

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This one ?

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Bob Sherunckle

If you'd used a non-proportional font, I may have been able to see what you were highlighting.

I assume it's not the Fuckup TDCI, though.

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SteveH

Likewise for me with the IS, utterly reliable and getting more economical week by week, was upto 31mpg last week.

If not, I would have got the itchy feet again, and the XJS would have been stupid enough for me to splurge on, and the 300 Diesel, grotty enough and cheap enough for me to contemplate cutting the springs and rattle canning in satin black.

I'm glad that has been taken out of my hands by reliability.

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Elder

Erm, looks from this end that he's just sending it in plain text, as I'm seeing it in the same font everything else is displayed in.

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AstraVanMann

The default font for MS is proportional - still plain text, but not all characters are the same width.

Usenet convention (for a good reason, see above) says you should use a non-proportional font - where all the characters are the same width.

The issue here is that, for other MS users, the underlining will work, so long as you're using the default font. If you change the font, or use a non-MS newsreader, it doesn't appear where it should.

HTH.

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SteveH

Don't, just don't. A few months back one of the German classic car rags ran a buyers guide on them and pointed out that there are already parts supply problems for the V8...

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Timo Geusch

But you could drive it home for 500 quid, and if you got a year out of it - it would be a bloody fun year.

You'd get more than 500 quid for it in bits, if parts are unobtanium.

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SteveH

A guy I know is selling a 1995 Jag XJR in a dark blue for £3kono. After pissing about with the SD1 today I'm half tempted to chop it in and go have a look at this. From the photos it looks gorgeous and with a 4.0 supercharged straight 6 it's got plenty of power on offer :)

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Carl Gibbs

Yeah, I get that, but....

But the other option would mean that the vast majority, who use MS, which by default has a proportional width font as standard, the underlining wouldn't appear in the right place.....

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AstraVanMann

The trouble is that the parts that go bang are the ones that are made from unobtanium.

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Timo Geusch

Is Outlook the 'vast majority', though?

Windows may be dominant, but I doubt Outlook has a significant majority share of the Usenet client market, even on Windows boxes.

However, the point is that just because MS say it's OK, doesn't mean that we should allow convention to be over-ridden.

There are very good reasons for keeping to non-proportional fonts - as shown above - especially as it will also affect MS Outlook users who have changed font to another proportional font, or a non-proportional font.

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SteveH

You know, you could just have said

"it's the ".

That would have saved you a whole load of typing and sense of dissaproval at my having used the email / news client that this machine came with.

I promise to try to be a bit more left field in my choice of software with the machine I'm setting up just now.

Sorry if that comes out in syrillic at your end.

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Bob Sherunckle

Fuck 'em.

Non-proportional is the only reliable way to do underlining like that.

(and yes, I use MS - but using a monospaced font).

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Clive George

Assuming you're talking about Outlook Express (don't think proper Outlook does news), then I'd wager it probably is dominant in terms of windows machines, simply 'cos it's the one that most come with, and does the job, and most don't feel the need to change it. I fall into that camp. Although sometimes there are features I would find handy that OE doesn't have, but I get by with it.

I'm now going to change my font every day just to see what they all look like :-)

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AstraVanMann

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:56:06 +0000, SteveH spouted:

The underlining appeared ok for me using Pan

Mike P

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Mike P

What did it underline, though?

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SteveH

The colour is right, but the price seems high unless it has barely turned a wheel since being made.

Rust is a problem on those cars, it pays to be extra vigilant and to refuse to touch it if there's even a bubble or a hint of respray.

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Steve Firth

i.e. "Sheep".

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Steve Firth

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