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|    Message 637 of 1,004    |
|    Martin Foster to August Abolins    |
|    WinPoint Version 402.1    |
|    07 Mar 22 11:46:42    |
      MSGID: 2:280/464.27 442f5709       CHRS: IBMPC 2       TZUTC: 0000       REPLY: 1:153/757.21@fidonet fa2df2f1       Hello August!              *** Sunday 06.03.22 at 13:10:00, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:               MF>> However, I've discovered that messages written by me using WinPoint ARE,        MF>> in fact, italicised in the message list, whereas messages written by me        MF>> using OpenXP are NOT italicised in the message list. I'm now left        MF>> wondering if this is by design or whether it's a bug ??               AA> Interesting. Winpoint seems to deviate from the formatting        AA> "codes". Instead of a single / around a word to italicise it,        AA> it uses two /'s.              Hmmmm, well, there must be a valid reason for that but what, I really don't       know.                AA> With two /'s, the italics fails in OpenXP as well as in Thunderbird.              I can't really comment about Thunderbird but AFAIK, OpenXP doesn't support       italic text.              Regards,       Martin              --- WinPoint 403.0        * Origin: WinPoint Test Rig - UK - (2:280/464.27)       SEEN-BY: 15/0 92/1 106/201 124/5016 129/331 153/757 7715 203/0 218/700       SEEN-BY: 221/0 1 6 229/110 317 426 428 664 700 240/1120 266/512 280/464       SEEN-BY: 280/5003 5555 282/1038 292/854 8125 301/1 113 310/31 317/3       SEEN-BY: 320/219 335/364 341/66 234 396/45 460/58 712/848 2452/250       SEEN-BY: 5020/1042 5058/104       PATH: 280/464 301/1 229/426           |
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