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Re: // and ** vs {} and [] (was: testing in rtl...)
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lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.nntp
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Fri, 30 May 2003 17:59:00 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Brian H. Nielsen wrote:
> 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 page? Are you planning on removing that capability?
If // and ** proved superior to {} and [], then going back and removing {} and
[] (and of course automatically converting existing pages to // and **) would
certainly be an option.
> Posters having to go back and clean up formatting in messages they are
> quoting seems like a major inconvenience. No matter what characters FTX
> supports.
But it's only an issue under one obscure set of circumstances: if (1) you
are posting a reply to a plain-text message, and (2) you are posting your
reply in FTX, and (3) the message you're replying to happens to contain
instances of {} or [] or || and you don't want those to be misinterpreted as
italics, bold, or computer text, or a <> surrounding a non-URL and you don't
want that to be misinterpreted as a URL. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in all
other cases, there's no need to clean up anything.
--Todd
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