Re: bold italic underline - how?
  By: Rob Swindell to Paul Quinn on Sat Oct 17 2020 02:33 pm

 >   Re: bold italic underline - how?
 >   By: Paul Quinn to Rob Swindell on Sun Oct 18 2020 06:34 am
 >
 >  > Hi! Rob,
 >
 >  > On 10/18/2020 06:17 AM, you wrote to Stas Mishchenkov:
 >  >  RS>    Re: bold italic underline - how?
 >  >  RS>    By: Stas Mishchenkov to August Abolins on Thu Oct 15 2020 10:11
 >  >  RS> pm
 >
 >  >  >>         STYLECODES   (hide)
 >
 >  >  RS> I'm curious about the history of these "StyleCodes" supported by
 >  >  RS> GoldEd+. Anyone know where/when their original inspiration was?
 >  >  RS> GoldEd and GoldEd+ don't actually support stylized text (just normal
 >  >  RS> CGA color/brightness text attributes), so it seems to me there must
 >  >  RS> have been some other FidoNet software that actually supported
 >  >  RS> bold/italic/underlined text display using those codes first. Anyone
 >  >  RS> know?
 >
 >  > I don't know for certain.  But I have to say that the point package
 >  > called SemPoint for Windows had a really nice mode.  It used Windows
 >  > fonts to portray/display the actual styles on characters in FTN messages,
 >  > in response to the style codes.  It called the mode something like 'rich
 >  > text'.
 >
 > Thanks for the pointer! I installed sempoint v2.26 (16-bit Windows programs,
 > remember those? That was fun) just so I could read the help text, and
 > indeed, it describes its "rich text" feature as you said. It appears to
 > support bold, italic, underline (and combinations of those) using the same
 > syntax as GoldEd but does not mention the inverse style supported in GoldEd
 > (#this#). Still, appears to be the likely impetus. Thanks again!

The version of Synchronet now in development now has support for message
Markup, in the same veign as GoldEd's StyleCodes, with exceptions:
- no combining/nesting of styles
- the parsing rules are not configurable as they are with GoldEd+

It's a sysop "opt-in" feature in sbbs v3.18c (per message area), but I'll
likely make it the default for newly created/added sub-boards in the future
once the feature is sufficiently tested.

Here's a sample of what it looks like when using SyncTERM and custom fonts:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApZPvWcrEaRQvOhXPHfQo0mI4N5_jg?e=wjy6qa
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