Note: The following procedure to make text you're quoting indented and smaller can only be done with text you've pasted into an e-mail or newgroup post; this method will not work on a webpage.
Cut~Copy~Paste will let you "lift" or "Copy" text from almost anywhere you find it, and when you insert it into an e-mail or newsgroup post, it will look as though you typed it yourself.
Quoted~text editing is a way of making the quote indent and "smallifying," which is done by breaking a paragraph into single lines of text with a hard Return at the end (making them non-wrapping), and a > character before the beginning of the text of each line.
So you fake it, by inserting hard Returns after each line of text, and placing a > before each.
First, you "Copy" a piece of text from a received mail, a newsgroup post, or a webpage using the "Find" key and "Cmd-C". Then using "Cmd-V" you paste it into a "Write" screen (for either e-mail or newsgroup posting). Here's a sample paragraph of text:
Welcome to the Advanced HTML Editor. You can use this form to design your own customized HTML Page. We have developed a preview capability so you can look at your page as it will actually appear on the Web. Take a look at what other people have done to give you some idea of the flexibility and power of our Home Page Editor.
In your mail Write or newsgroup Post screen, put your cursor in front of the second line of text (the cursor location is indicated by the yellow vertical bar in this example).
Welcome to the Advanced HTML Editor. You can use this form to |design your own customized HTML Page. We have developed a preview capability so you can look at your page as it will actually appear on the Web. Take a look at what other people have done to give you some idea of the flexibility and power of our Home Page Editor.
Then press Delete, then Return, this inserts a hard Return at the end of the first line.
Move down the left side of the paragraph, doing the same thing to place a hard Return at the end of each line.
Now, go to the left end of the last line and type in a > character; do this for each line, working to the top, until it looks like this:
>Welcome to the Advanced HTML Editor. You can use this form to
>design your own customized HTML Page. We have
developed a
>preview capability so you can look at your page as it will actually
>appear on the Web. Take a look at what other people have done to
>give you some idea of the flexibility and power of our Home Page
>Editor.
If putting in the > character makes the line you're adding it to break to another line, don't worry, when the message is sent or posted, the breaks all go away automatically.
Note: Make sure you hit Return twice any time you want to separate paragraphs of indented text, or before and after the indented material (to keep unindented material from getting "sucked in" to the quote).
Here is how the quote text would look this using this method:
Welcome to the Advanced HTML Editor. You can use this form to design your own customized HTML Page. We have developed a preview capability so you can look at your page as it will actually appear on the Web. Take a look at what other people have done to give you some idea of the flexibility and power of our Home Page Editor.
Practice this by sending yourself test emails, and you'll get it figured out pretty quick.