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(...) BTW, just to double-check... It did show you a big huge yellow and red message box on the preview page explaining this, yes? --Todd (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Good! That's where your replies belongs in a threaded discussion. (...) Not if you trim irrelevant portions of the reply correctly. (...) Top-posting is a fine thing for non-threaded discussions, especially where the recipient list changes (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) That's what I used to think too -- but I'm not so sure anymore... (...) the double slash and (2) the http: prefix. (...) I've never seen anyone write anything like that before. But in any case, it's got two leading slashes instead of one. (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Please note that the above chart is not an ASCII chart. ASCII character codes range from 0 to 127 and nothing else. What the chart shows is the ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) character set. But it's not even correct at that, because 128 through 159 are (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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Yikes! I just posted a reply and all my text was moved to the bottom of the message! Oy! Sure it makes it easy to read when the only message you read, in a thread, is the last one. But if you read the replies as the come in then you're forced to (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) AFAIK, it's a Windows thing. In DOS, you didn't have to type the leading 0. --Todd (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Richie, what happens when you press Alt+0233 (type the 0233 on the numeric keypad)? --Todd (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Yes, but they're supposed to show on the right, not on the left. (...) If you click the "more..." link, it shows a reference card and it shows that the cent symbol is 162 (in the ISO-8859-1 character set). (...) Those aren't on your keyboard? (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) I think you'll find too many anomalies if FTX supports // and ** directly. You have to also make sure you don't FTX format text that is not intended to be FTX formatted. Some examples to consider follow. For slashes: Valid web addresses: (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) You might want to try typing ALT + 162 to get the ¢ sign. Though as I've mentioned in another posting... for some reason, I need to type ALT + 0162 to get the right value. I'm still wondering if this is me doing something wrong, or if this is (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Yes! 'é' please... it'll save me having to type cafe in Word® (which gets automatically converted to café) and copying the 'é' back to LUGNET. (Although the observant reader will note that 'Misérable' is in my flashy new 'sig', so I could just (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) SNIP (...) are the symbols to the left of the text window in 'reply' web interface mode part of the additions? I see ©, ®, & others, but we need the cent symbol! :) other letters for French/other names or words would be cool too just my (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) 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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(...) [...] (...) 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* (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) That might help, but I think it would be better to just replace the FTX code with the URL directly. (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.publish)
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(...) That would work decently. You would want to insert those between paragraphs (as best as you could). Of course they could also become invisible to FTX users when a NNTP user quotes the message (as I have carefully done with this message). Frank (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.publish)
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(...) What if lines beginning with "#" in FTX denoted comments, and the URLs of referenced resources were summarized in a comment block? In other words, if someone said [LEGOSet 6954_1] and [LDrawPart 3004:4] it would append something like this: # (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Yes, but the problem is that not all FTX extensions work as well as others. For example the set and part database items, polls, etc. will not display properly on a plaintext system. For those you should convert the FTX code to an URL that (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Oh! Thanks for catching that, Brian. I had a typo in my regex. --Todd (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) I recommend it! So far it has given me no trouble, only benefits. BTW, Windows is no longer (since W98?) in the DOS world, the two have separated. On WinXP you can hardly say you have a DOS world... (...) all-time boldface Star Wars italics (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.publish)
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