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   Message 642 of 1,004   
   Tim Schattkowsky to Martin Foster   
   Re^2: WinPoint Version 402.1   
   07 Mar 22 16:31:26   
   
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   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   TZUTC: 0100   
   REPLY: 2:240/1120.29 4456cb85   
   //Hello Martin,//   
      
   on *07.03.2022* at *15:29:31* *Tim Schattkowsky* wrote in area *WINPOINT*   
   to *you* about *"Re: WinPoint Version 402.1"*:   
      
    TS> Hello Martin,   
      
    TS> on 07.03.2022 at 11:46:42 You wrote in Area WINPOINT to August Abolins   
    TS> about "WinPoint Version 402.1".   
      
    MF>> Hello August!   
      
    MF>> *** 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   
    MF>>>> ARE, in fact, italicised in the message list, whereas messages written   
    MF>>>> by me using OpenXP are NOT italicised in the message list. I'm now   
    MF>>>> left 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.   
      
    MF>> Hmmmm, well, there must be a valid reason for that but what, I really   
    MF>> don't know.   
      
    AA>>> With two /'s, the italics fails in OpenXP as well as in Thunderbird.   
      
    MF>> I can't really comment about Thunderbird but AFAIK, OpenXP doesn't   
    MF>> support italic text.   
      
    TS> As a matter of fact, I do not recall anymore why it is like that ... but   
    TS> it has been for 20 years now without complaint. That may be related to   
    TS> the fact, that italics have been rarely used in the past as text displays   
    TS> had no appropriate way to render them. Still today, italics rendering for   
    TS> monospaced fonts has quality issues (as can be seen in WP). I can only   
    TS> recall, that for example Spot on the Amiga (which I used before moving to   
    TS> OS/2 and before writing WP) was indeed using a single slash, but nobody   
    TS> used it.   
      
    TS> I can only speculate, that back in the days I was aware and of the single   
    TS> slash practice and had whatever reason to deviate from it. Today my first   
    TS> reflex would be indeed to say, the single slash makes more sense.   
      
    TS> However, interestingly I NEVER noticed anyone using the single slash in a   
    TS> message as that would stand out in WPs display. I do see WP users using   
    TS> the WP-style from time to time, but of course I am to blame for that.   
      
   I might add, that having more than one character as the indicator indeed   
   complicates the involved code a lot, so I really think I did do that for a   
   reason. Still, that reason might be no longer valid.    
      
   Regards,   
   Tim   
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