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echo: synchronet
to: POINDEXTER FORTRAN
from: TONY LANGDON
date: 2020-10-17 16:57:00
subject: Re: Style codes in messag

-=> On 10-16-20 07:17, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Digital Man <=-

 -=> Digital Man wrote to All <=-

 DM> What do you guys think about potentially supporting "style codes" in
 DM> message body text?

 pF>  I'd like to see that. I'm thinking about some web markup schemes
 pF>  that people use to emphasize plain text, like *bold* text would look
 pF>  like ASCII to everyone else, but Synchronet could render as bold.

 pF>  Maybe /italic/ ?

_italic_ is another one that's pretty common on Internet platforms, along with
*bold*.

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

Yeah, escapes would be helpful for those cases, where a literal string is
needed.


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