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(...) LOL!!! OK, I shouldn't've crossposted to .off-topic.geek without giving a link (with that weird URL thing I do) to the top-level node in the thread, explaining what this was all about. Here's that: (URL) one clean way to do lines like your (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Todd Lehman wrote in several messages ... (...) ... (...) [Todd], {I} must have (missed the start <of this>, but why)? _All_ you're doing is (forcing) people l{i}ke me to write <[pre>-processors] to remove the [garbage] that (you{'}<ve)> let (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) OK Ed, I just quickly went back to my History file in my web browser and checked the original source...it does indeed let you change formatting right in the middle of a sentence like that -- although it will not properly abut the comma against (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) LOL!!! OK, I guess some things in DOS, like \ instead of /, are more disgusting than (...) Oh heck, sure -- that makes perfect sense there! :) In fact, I'm sure those letters must be common keys for those command in lots of word processors. (C (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm in shock. I guess you were never as DOS based as I was. B I and C were the keys in Word Perfect( and several other Dos based word processors) for those exact commands (usually with the <ALT> or <CTRL> key). (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Whoops -- ambiguity alert again... Darn it, when will I learn to write?! By "it" in "if it fit in nicely," I meant whatever markup is chosen for member-pages, not the one mentioned three nodes up on the thread. (Darn antecedents! :-) --Todd (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Huh?! Why? It's the most disgusting thing I've ever seen! A single character in column 1 to modify the entire line? That's somewhat intuitive for *, ], and >, but for b and i and c it's pathetic. (...) Chell specking would be fun. Anyway, it (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Reconsider not considering it. And add spell checking as well. To those of you who read my posts, spellchecking would be a welcome relief (you don't need to search Dejanews for proof). And I'd love to be able to format text in posts to LUGNET. (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmm, interesting, I just sort-of half-randomly stumbled onto yet another markup format... It goes like this: You type text as paragraphs separated by blank lines, and you put special characters in column 1 if you want to do something special (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Sure it did, it pointed to fibblesnork... close enough for me. (...) I wouldn't know, it's not as big a problem for me as it is for some. :-) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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