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(...) Since you don't think most of the above are problems because they are not on word boandaries, how do you reconcile that with FTX's support for bolding, italicizing, or underlining part of a word, such as in the example in the FTX quick start (...) (23 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: // and ** vs {} and [] (was: testing in rtl...)
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(...) That's what I used to think too -- but I'm not so sure anymore... (...) the double slash and (2) the http: prefix. (...) I've never seen anyone write anything like that before. But in any case, it's got two leading slashes instead of one. (...) (23 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: // and ** vs {} and [] (was: testing in rtl...)
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(...) I think you'll find too many anomalies if FTX supports // and ** directly. You have to also make sure you don't FTX format text that is not intended to be FTX formatted. Some examples to consider follow. For slashes: Valid web addresses: (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) The problem with that is that articles are stored in the news server in their raw original format only. When they're displayed by the web interface, and the FTX content is rendered into HTML for viewing on a web browser, it's done so (...) (23 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
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(...) That might help, but I think it would be better to just replace the FTX code with the URL directly. (23 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.publish)
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