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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    |
      MSGID: 2:240/1120.29 4456cb89       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       --- WinPoint 404.0        * Origin: Original WinPoint Origin! (2:240/1120.29)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 15/0 18/0 106/201 123/0 129/331 138/146 153/7715 218/700       SEEN-BY: 229/110 317 426 428 664 700 240/1120 250/1 266/512 275/100       SEEN-BY: 275/1000 282/1038 291/111 292/854 301/1 317/3 320/219 335/364       SEEN-BY: 342/11 371/0 396/45 460/58 640/1321 712/848 2452/250 3634/0       SEEN-BY: 3634/12       PATH: 240/1120 3634/12 153/7715 229/426           |
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