[Typo3] Direct mail - change plaintext rendering/formatting

[Christopher]

Hi,

On 06/08/05, Peter Kindström <peter.kindstrom at abc.se> wrote:
> 
> Hi list
> Now I have tried for a couple of hours to find information and
> try out how to change the rendering/formatting of plaintext
> mails sent by  Direct mail. I want to change the default
> rendering/formatting for the headers from:
> 
>   ---------------------------------------
>   ------- HEADER I
>   ----------------------------------------
> 
> to something like:
> 
>   xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>    HEADER I
>   xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> I *think* I found some information in the
> "media/scripts/plaintextLib.inc" file. That information I think
> tells me that this could be done by TypoScript!?
> 
> My guess is that I can put TS code into my template´s Constants
> field (Template / root page / Info/Modify / Constants).
> But I have tried several different ways of formatting the
> constant strings, without success. This is what I have tried:
> 
>   # DirecMail plain text rendering
>   lib.alt_plaintext.renderObj.header.0.preLineChar = x
>   lib.alt_plaintext.renderObj.header.1.preLineChar = x
>   plugin.alt.plaintext.header.0.preLineChar = x
>   plugin.alt.plaintext.header.1.preLineChar = x
>   alt_plaintext.header.0.preLineChar = x
>   alt_plaintext.header.1.preLineChar = x
>   plugin.alt_plaintext.header.0.preLineChar = x
>   plugin.alt_plaintext.header.1.preLineChar = x
>   alt_plaintext.config.header.0.preLineChar = x
>   alt_plaintext.config.header.1.preLineChar = x
> 
> None of them work!
> Can anyone *please* give me a hint on what I am doing wrong?!
> Maybe post a working example to the NG/ML?
> 
> I use Typo3 3.8.0, TemplaVoila 0.3.0 and DirectMail 1.1.0. I can
> send the mails and they look ok otherwise, it´s just the
> rendering/formatting I want to change.

Try the TS Object Browser (in the 'Template' module - in T3 3.8, you
may need to install this) [1]. There you can see the tree structure
that gets generated by TS templates - as well as whether the
properties you're dealing with go in the 'Constants' or 'Setup' fields
and their correct syntax.


-Christopher

[1] http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/doc_tut_quickstart/The_Object_Browser/