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   Paul Quinn to Rob Swindell   
   bold italic underline - how?   
   18 Oct 20 06:34:43   
   
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   Hi! Rob,   
      
   On 10/18/2020 06:17 AM, you wrote to Stas Mishchenkov:   
    RS>    Re: bold italic underline - how?   
    RS>    By: Stas Mishchenkov to August Abolins on Thu Oct 15 2020 10:11 pm   
      
    >>         STYLECODES   (hide)   
      
    RS> I'm curious about the history of these "StyleCodes" supported by   
    RS> GoldEd+. Anyone know where/when their original inspiration was? GoldEd   
    RS> and GoldEd+ don't actually support stylized text (just normal CGA   
    RS> color/brightness text attributes), so it seems to me there must have   
    RS> been some other FidoNet software that actually supported   
    RS> bold/italic/underlined text display using those codes first. Anyone know?   
      
   I don't know for certain.  But I have to say that the point package called   
   SemPoint for Windows had a really nice mode.  It used Windows fonts to   
   portray/display the actual styles on characters in FTN messages, in response   
   to the style codes.  It called the mode something like 'rich text'.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
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