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In lugnet.admin.general, "Ed Jones" <edboxer@aol.com> writes:
> > 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!
>
> Reconsider not considering it. [...]
Huh?! Why? It's the most disgusting thing I've ever seen! A single
character in column 1 to modify the entire line? That's somewhat intuitive
for *, ], and >, but for b and i and c it's pathetic.
> 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.
Chell specking would be fun.
Anyway, it was an example of simple little ASCII-based markup languages --
one of which needs to be chosen for member-pages. Wasn't looking for
something to enhance news posts, although if it fit in nicely and
transparently, it wouldn't probably hurt.
--Todd
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