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|    Rob Swindell to Paul Quinn    |
|    bold italic underline - how?    |
|    02 Nov 20 17:10:05    |
      TZUTC: -0800       MSGID: 3581.golded@1:103/705 2405f1ea       REPLY: 3:640/1384.125 5fa088f4       PID: Synchronet 3.18c-Win32 Nov 2 2020 MSC 1927       TID: SBBSecho 3.11-Linux r3.179 Oct 25 2020 GCC 8.3.0       COLS: 80       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. :-)       --         digital man              Sling Blade quote #18:       Karl Childers: Some folks call it Hell, I call it Hades.       Norco, CA WX: 73.1øF, 52.0% humidity, 8 mph E wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs       --- SBBSecho 3.11-Linux        * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 18/200 90/1 103/705 120/340 123/131 154/10 203/0 218/700       SEEN-BY: 221/0 226/30 227/114 229/101 275 424 426 452 664 1016 240/77       SEEN-BY: 240/2100 5138 5411 5832 5853 6309 249/206 317 400 280/464       SEEN-BY: 280/5003 5555 292/854 8125 310/31 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200       SEEN-BY: 396/45 423/120 633/280 712/848 770/1 2432/390 2452/250 2454/119       PATH: 103/705 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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