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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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Mon, 2 Jun 2003 22:52:41 GMT
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"Todd Lehman" <todd@lugnet.com> writes:
> In lugnet.publish, William R. Ward wrote:
> > I agree that FTX should translate {} and [] to // and ** when displaying in
> > plain text, and I'm *not* joking.
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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 on-the-fly by a fairly complex set of Perl5 operations. Although it
> wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to convert {} and [] to // and **
> when dispatching articles by e-mail, I sure don't like the idea of firing up
> Perl to convert the content on-the-fly from the news server every time an
> article is fetched. An alternative to on-the-fly converstion might be to
> store two copies of articles on the server (one raw, one converted), but that
> seems pretty gunky to me.
What NNTP server do you use? I was under the impression that it was
written in Perl itself.
[...]
> Let's approach the problem from a different direction: What if FTX simply
> supported // and ** directly? I'll bet that if it did, a lot of people would
> choose that over {} and [], and you'd be able to read them in Mozilla.
How about a different interpretation - // and ** (and don't forget __
for underlining) might not be interpreted the same as the {} and [] of
FTX, but would be interpreted like this:
s% (\W) (_\w.+\w_) (\W) %$1<u>$2</u>$3%xg;
s% (\W) (\*\w.+\w\*) (\W) %$1<b>$2</b>$3%xg;
s% (\W) (/\w.+\w/) (\W) %$1<i>$2</i>$3%xg;
Note that since the __, **, and // are inside the parens, and
therefore inside $2, they will be printed but the markup will be
added. This way no information is lost in case of a problem. This is
how Mozilla handles it. This would be independent of the other FTX
commands for bold/italics.
--Bill.
--
William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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