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Re: Please consider fixing FTX...
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Fri, 27 May 2005 19:09:50 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Dan Boger wrote:
> I do agree that FTX needs to degrade much more nicely into plain text
> than it does. If we change FTX though, we'll need to think of what to
> do with older FTX posts.
I don't think I'd change FTX-- I think I'd vote for an FTX->plain text
converter, and run that on any FTX posts. Then, when someone requests the post
via NNTP or SMTP, that's the post they get.
It would probably do things like:
- remove square & curly brackets that would be FTX-interpreted as bold or
italics
- turn the FTX newline character into an actual newline
- remove <> characters around links & images
- etc, for true type, bulleted lists, indenting, etc
Not sure what to do with tables.
DaveE
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| (...) But that means you need to store two copies of FTX posts - one converted, and one not. Not that that's a bad thing, but it's something to think about. As for tables, we'll have to use your old code (or to write new code) that will convert the (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Please consider fixing FTX...
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| (...) Um, looks ok when I look at it? (...) I do agree that FTX needs to degrade much more nicely into plain text than it does. If we change FTX though, we'll need to think of what to do with older FTX posts. (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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