Re: Re: Style codes in messages
  By: Digital Man to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Oct 16 2020 11:29 am

 >   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.

If anyone's curious, this is what the markup (style codes) currently look like
in SyncTERM with custom fonts:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApZPvWcrEaRQvOhXPHfQo0mI4N5_jg?e=wjy6qa
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