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| mark lewis to August Abolins |
| trying to get the hang of "oxp" |
| 03 Apr 19 12:34:12 |
REPLY: 2:221/360 5ca44e06 MSGID: 1:3634/12.73 5ca4e289 PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20180707 CHRS: CP437 2 TZUTC: -0400 TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 07-09-15 On 2019 Apr 03 09:09:10, you wrote to me: AA>>> Next, I might look into the quoting options. By default it is just AA>>> the ">" char. Not sure if I want the First Last initials look. ml>> you should... it is the defacto FTN quoting standard... especially if ml>> it adds new ">" to the right of existing ones which is another ml>> defacto FTN quoting standard... i've been manually fixing them in ml>> many of our posts back and forth... AA> I dunno. TB won't do it (unless there is a working Add-On that does it?). there is not... the FTN way is totally alien and more advanced than what the 'net offers... AA> Besides, if the conversation is between two persons, it is easy to AA> recognize which person wrote what. true but you cannot tell that when you come along later and read the same thread weeks later... especially if there's no initials and even moreso if someone has trimmed out the attributions or someone's editor didn't put attributions in in the first place... AA> It is commendable of you to fix the lines and add the initials. (I thanks... AA> have done that too.) But it's really not necessary for every line. it is if you answer inline like we do instead of top or bottom posting... AA> If it is a very large block, why not save some work and do something AA> like: ugh... AA> adverb: defacto AA> 1. in fact, or in effect, whether by right or not. AA> I would think of the "FL >" initials method more of as a "common standard". it was but back in the '90s, the quoting format in FTNs changed so that you could actially tell the level of quotes lines have been through... AA> But just the brackets is fine for me. TB does a fairly decent AA> replacement of the >>'s with vertical ||'s and is just as easy to deal AA> with. that's just a visual thing when reading... the ">" are still used and can be seen if you edit a draft... i've had to fix some that were quite ugly and then there's the ones where a blank line at the end of a text block gets a quote mark on it and the reply starts on the same line as that empty quote... that makes it look like there is no reply and the reply text is wrongly attributed to the person quoted... AA> In fact, oxp adds colour to the different levels of ">>", so actual AA> initials aren't really necessary. The colour makes things very clear who AA> said what. no, not who... only the different levels of quoting... TimED, GoldED, and likely MsgED do the same... it helps to break the quoted parts out... AA> Nothing wrong with a little variety, eh? |
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