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    From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to deepthaw on Monday, November 16, 2020 08:17:50
    Re: Style codes in messages
    By: deepthaw to Nightfox on Sun Nov 15 2020 01:10 pm

    those new things, so that's probably something to consider too. I
    imagine SyncTerm would be updated to support it, but other terminal
    programs & offline message readers, etc. might not know how to deal
    with it.

    It's my understanding that the formatting codes are pretty close to what people already do. They put asterisks around *bold* test, slashes around /italicized/ text, etc. If a client didn't support it, they'd see something similar to this message.

    That's what I gathered too, from what Digital Man said.

    Nightfox

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Nightfox on Monday, November 16, 2020 19:44:46
    Re: Style codes in messages
    By: Nightfox to deepthaw on Mon Nov 16 2020 08:17 am

    It's my understanding that the formatting codes are pretty close to
    what people already do. They put asterisks around *bold* test,
    slashes around /italicized/ text, etc. If a client didn't support
    it, they'd see something similar to this message.

    That's what I gathered too, from what Digital Man said.

    I have the apply markup codes set to hide in all my areas. The word bold and italicized above stand out from other text, it looks good.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Al on Tuesday, November 17, 2020 12:25:50
    Re: Style codes in messages
    By: Al to Nightfox on Mon Nov 16 2020 07:44 pm

    It's my understanding that the formatting codes are pretty close to
    what people already do. They put asterisks around *bold* test,
    slashes around /italicized/ text, etc. If a client didn't support
    it, they'd see something similar to this message.

    That's what I gathered too, from what Digital Man said.

    I have the apply markup codes set to hide in all my areas. The word bold and italicized above stand out from other text, it looks good.

    I didn't realize the markup code support had been implemented already (I haven't been following the Synchronet Programming sub-board very closely). I thought it was still a conceptual idea. I'll have to check it out.

    Nightfox

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