Emailing a document inline

[Joe]

I have an article currently in OOo Writer 1.1 (Linux).  It has indented
paragraphs, a couple of font sizes and a bold, italic or two (no
graphics, tables, or other fancy stuff).
I need to email it (currently using mozilla messenger) to a publisher
who will not accept file attachments to emails.
When I copy and paste, I lose all formatting and it looks terrible.
What can I do to get it into an email with some formatting?  I think
HTML or rtf would be sufficient to make it presentable, but I don't know
how to get it there.  I can save the document as HTML or rtf from OOo
Writer, but I don't see how to import it into mozilla messenger except
as plain text.
I may need to do this a number of times, so a solution would really help.

For this time, I can probably just fax the darn thing to them, but I
hope I can do better than that.

Since this is an exceptional event, I am open to moving the document to
another word processor or to using another email program just for this
if it will make things easier.  Or maybe there's one of those magic
filters somewhere that would help.

The only thing I really don't want to do is let my Windows system
anywhere near the internet so I'd like to do this all in Linux.

I was able to save the file as html and import it into kmail.  When I 
sent it to myself and received it in mozilla (my setting is to do mail 
in html), what I saw was html source code, not the nice text.  I tried 
saving the message to disk and changing the extension from eml to html. 
  Then I opened it in the file manager (I don't know what the darn thing 
is called - it just shows a house and says home under the icon), the 
file displayed fine, but of course it had the email header lines in 
front of it.  I don't know what LookOut or LookOut Express would do with 
it.  Would it display correctly or as html source?

The last thing I want to do is get an editor (the human kind ;)  ) 
pissed at me when I'm trying to get published!

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Joe


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