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   Message 637 of 1,004   
   Martin Foster to August Abolins   
   WinPoint Version 402.1   
   07 Mar 22 11:46:42   
   
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   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   
      
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