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Re: markup syntax for member pages
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Mon, 5 Jul 1999 04:18:39 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
In lugnet.admin.general, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:
[...snipped basic markup language survey and comments...]

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 on that paragraph.  Special characters are:

  b  Do boldface through the end of line
  i  Do italics through the end of line
  c  Center the rest of the line
  *  Make a bulleted paragraph
  ]  Indent the paragraph
Indent the paragraph and use the <blockquote> font

Don't laugh -- it's from a fairly popular groupware product.

I don't think it's worth our considering at all for LUGNET purposes (way too
obscure and hard to remember, IMO), but I thought it was interesting how
*different* various text-markup methods could be.  Wow!

troff, anyone?  ;-)

--Todd


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.



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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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(...) 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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