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   Message 2,733 of 3,070   
   Martin Foster to August Abolins   
   [openxp] Styled Text   
   16 Mar 22 13:07:00   
   
   MSGID: 2:310/31.3@fidonet fa7b5624   
   REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet fa6e6f53   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.51 (Win32) (i386)   
   CHRS: CP437 2   
   TZUTC: 0000   
   Hello August!   
      
   *** Monday 14.03.22 at 22:09, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:   
      
    MF>>>> It doesn't support underlined either.   
      
    AA>>> underline DOES get represented by changing colour here!   
      
    MF>> Yes and that's exactly what happens here but it doesn't alter the fact   
    MF>> that it isn't rendered in the way in which it was intended to be   
    MF>> rendered.   
      
    AA> Here is what I was looking for:   
      
    AA> ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ»   
    AA> º                                                        º   
    AA> º  It is common practice to emphasise words by enclosing º   
    AA> º  them in *asterisks* or _underlines_. This switch      º   
    AA> º  causes OpenXP to take words enclosed by these         º   
    AA> º  characters and display them in a different colour,    º   
    AA> º  which can be set in /Config/Display/Colors/Lister.    º   
    AA> º                                                        º   
    AA> º  [x]     Emphasise these words in a different          º   
    AA> º          colour.                                       º   
    AA> º                                                        º   
    AA> º  [ ]     Do not emphasise by colour.                   º   
    AA> º                                                        º   
    AA> º  You can toggle this setting at any time (if you want  º   
    AA> º  to take off the rose coloured spectacles) by pressing º   
    AA> º  the C key (for Colour).                               º   
      
   Ah yes, good find :)   
      
   That would be the help topic for this:   
      
   Config -> Options -> Message Reader   
   -----------------------------------   
   +- Internal message reader options ------------+   
   |                                              |   
   |   [x]   Full screen                          |   
   |   [x]   Display clock                        |   
   |   [x]   Line break in column 80              |   
   |   [x]   Show reference arrows                |   
   |   [ ]   Fixed message header display         |   
   |                                              |   
   |   [ ]   Convert German ISO Umlauts           |   
   |   [x]   Use UTF-8                            |   
   |   [x]   *Highlight* words by colour    <<---------   
   |   [ ]   Multi-coloured quotes                |   
   |                                              |   
   |   [ ]   Mouse scroll bar                     |   
   |   [x]   AutoScrolling                        |   
   |                                              |   
   |   [ ]   Exit message reader with     |   
   |                                              |   
   |  Viewer for URLs  explorer                   |   
   +----------------------------------------------+   
      
   Regards,   
   Martin   
      
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