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Re: testing in rtl...
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Thu, 29 May 2003 20:54:26 GMT
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"Anders Isaksson" <isaksson.etuna@REMOVEebox.tninet.se> writes:
Interestingly enough my Outlook Express with the AddOn OE-Quotefix by
Dominik Jain (http://flash.to/oblivion) showed your *shout* in boldface.
Also _underline_ gets underlined for real.

Unfortunately the Quotefix conventions for /italics/ and *boldface* don't
match FTX {italics} and [boldface]. I can't seem to find a way to change
this in Quotefix, maybe you could translate those when serving NNTP to me
(just joking :-) • [...]
(Oh, and it will change :-) ;-) etc. to the real thing, if you let it)

Mozilla does this too (the *bold* and _underline_ and /italics/
convention, and the smileys).  But I don't use Mozilla on Lugnet.

I agree that FTX should translate {} and [] to // and ** when
displaying in plain text, and I'm *not* joking.

--Bill.

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William R Ward            bill@wards.net          http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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little statesmen and philosophers and divines."        - Emerson



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  // and ** vs {} and [] (was: testing in rtl...)
 
(...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.nntp)

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(...) Interestingly enough my Outlook Express with the AddOn OE-Quotefix by Dominik Jain ((URL) showed your *shout* in boldface. Also _underline_ gets underlined for real. Unfortunately the Quotefix conventions for /italics/ and *boldface* don't (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish)

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