Re: Re: Style codes in messages
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Digital Man on Fri Oct 16 2020 07:17 am

 > -=> Digital Man wrote to All <=-
 >
 >  DM> What do you guys think about potentially supporting "style codes" in
 >  DM> message body text?
 >
 >  I'd like to see that. I'm thinking about some web markup schemes
 >  that people use to emphasize plain text, like *bold* text would look
 >  like ASCII to everyone else, but Synchronet could render as bold.
 >
 >  Maybe /italic/ ?

Right. Those are included in the ones that GoldEd+ supports. Also _underlined_
and #inverse#.

 >  You'd need a scheme to to escape literal characters, like in a URL,
 >  though...

Yeah, I don't know if there's a perfect solution, but usually any non-alpha
char will short-circuit the mark-up parsing so *these words* would not be bold.
Or maybe just *these, words* would not be bold. I haven't thoroughly analyzed
the common or best parsing rules yet.

                                            digital man

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