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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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Tue, 3 Jun 2003 17:43:06 GMT
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"Todd Lehman" <todd@lugnet.com> writes:
> In lugnet.publish, William R. Ward wrote:
> > What NNTP server do you use? I was under the impression that it was
> > written in Perl itself.
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> CNews.
I see. With extensive modifications, I assume?
I'm sure there's a way to link libperl.so to CNews but that could be
unweildy to say the least.
> > 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.
>
> Doesn't that look a bit redundant?
>
> {/italics/} and [*boldface*]
Sorry I can't view the FTX results of that on my browser. But I
assume that's right.
> What do underlined underlines look like? Like this?--
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> _\_N\__ew _\_E\__ngland _\_L\__EGO _\_U\__sers _\_G\__roup
I don't know what \_ does in FTX so I can't comment on that. But if
you had _underline_ it is equivalent to the HTML "<u>_underline_</u>".
> Not sure how either any of those are an improvement.
The improvement is that you get the effect of bold/italic/underline
without risking loss of data due to mis-parsing.
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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