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     Re: bold italic underline - how?   
     By: Rob Swindell to Paul Quinn on Sat Oct 17 2020 02:33 pm   
      
    >   Re: bold italic underline - how?   
    >   By: Paul Quinn to Rob Swindell on Sun Oct 18 2020 06:34 am   
    >   
    >  > 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   
    >  >  RS> 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?   
    >  >  RS> GoldEd and GoldEd+ don't actually support stylized text (just normal   
    >  >  RS> CGA color/brightness text attributes), so it seems to me there must   
    >  >  RS> have been some other FidoNet software that actually supported   
    >  >  RS> bold/italic/underlined text display using those codes first. Anyone   
    >  >  RS> 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'.   
    >   
    > Thanks for the pointer! I installed sempoint v2.26 (16-bit Windows programs,   
    > remember those? That was fun) just so I could read the help text, and   
    > indeed, it describes its "rich text" feature as you said. It appears to   
    > support bold, italic, underline (and combinations of those) using the same   
    > syntax as GoldEd but does not mention the inverse style supported in GoldEd   
    > (#this#). Still, appears to be the likely impetus. Thanks again!   
      
   The version of Synchronet now in development now has support for message   
   Markup, in the same veign as GoldEd's StyleCodes, with exceptions:   
   - no combining/nesting of styles   
   - the parsing rules are not configurable as they are with GoldEd+   
      
   It's a sysop "opt-in" feature in sbbs v3.18c (per message area), but I'll   
   likely make it the default for newly created/added sub-boards in the future   
   once the feature is sufficiently tested.   
      
   Here's a sample of what it looks like when using SyncTERM and custom fonts:   
   https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApZPvWcrEaRQvOhXPHfQo0mI4N5_jg?e=wjy6qa   
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