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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:
> > [...snipped basic markup language survey and comments...]
>
> Hmm, interesting, I just sort-of half-randomly stumbled onto yet another
> markup format... It goes like this: You type text as paragraphs separated
> by blank lines, and you put special characters in column 1 if you want to do
> something special on that paragraph. Special characters are:
>
> b Do boldface through the end of line
> i Do italics through the end of line
> c Center the rest of the line
> * Make a bulleted paragraph
> ] Indent the paragraph
> > Indent the paragraph and use the <blockquote> font
>
> Don't laugh -- it's from a fairly popular groupware product.
>
> I don't think it's worth our considering at all for LUGNET purposes (way too
> obscure and hard to remember, IMO), but I thought it was interesting how
> *different* various text-markup methods could be. Wow!
>
> troff, anyone? ;-)
>
> --Todd
Reconsider not considering it. And add spell checking as well. To those of
you who read my posts, spellchecking would be a welcome relief (you don't need
to search Dejanews for proof). And I'd love to be able to format text in posts
to LUGNET.
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