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   Rob Swindell to Paul Quinn   
   bold italic underline - how?   
   02 Nov 20 17:10:05   
   
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   PID: Synchronet 3.18c-Win32  Nov  2 2020 MSC 1927   
   TID: SBBSecho 3.11-Linux r3.179 Oct 25 2020 GCC 8.3.0   
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   CHRS: CP437 2   
   NOTE: FSEditor.js v1.104   
     Re: bold italic underline - how?   
     By: Paul Quinn to Rob Swindell on Tue Nov 03 2020 08:32 am   
      
    > Hi! Rob,   
    >   
    > On 11/03/2020 04:49 AM, you wrote:   
    >   
    >  RS> The version of Synchronet now in development now has support for   
    >  RS> message Markup, in the same veign as GoldEd's StyleCodes, with   
    >  RS> exceptions:   
    >  RS> - no combining/nesting of styles   
    >  RS> - the parsing rules are not configurable as they are with GoldEd+   
    >   
    > Thank you.  I'll tell August Abolins when I next see him.  He was the   
    > original enquirer.  Thank you.   
    >   
    > (But, frankly, I've given up on a solution to the quandary between BBS   
    > packages.  Your star performance on EwwToob swayed me for a bit but I have   
    > set off in a tangential direction, two months back.)   
      
   Okay, no problem. I think it's a cool feature and it'd nice if more BBS   
   packages and offline readers supported a compatible markup.   
      
    >  RS> It's a sysop "opt-in" feature in sbbs v3.18c (per message area), but   
    >  RS> I'll likely make it the default for newly created/added sub-boards in   
    >  RS> the future once the feature is sufficiently tested.   
    >   
    >  RS> Here's a sample of what it looks like when using SyncTERM and custom   
    >  RS> fonts:   
    >  RS> https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApZPvWcrEaRQvOhXPHfQo0mI4N5_jg?e=wjy6qa   
    >   
    > My attention was immediately drawn to the 'underline' sample  It's a 60s   
    > thing. It looks like a crazy OCR-A lowercase.  Groovy.   
      
   Yeah, until such time as we have a BBS terminal that actually support italics   
   and underlined text, it's the best I can do. :-)   
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