Re: bold italic underline - how?
  By: Paul Quinn to Rob Swindell on Tue Nov 03 2020 08:32 am

 > Hi! Rob,
 >
 > On 11/03/2020 04:49 AM, you wrote:
 >
 >  RS> The version of Synchronet now in development now has support for
 >  RS> message Markup, in the same veign as GoldEd's StyleCodes, with
 >  RS> exceptions:
 >  RS> - no combining/nesting of styles
 >  RS> - the parsing rules are not configurable as they are with GoldEd+
 >
 > Thank you.  I'll tell August Abolins when I next see him.  He was the
 > original enquirer.  Thank you.
 >
 > (But, frankly, I've given up on a solution to the quandary between BBS
 > packages.  Your star performance on EwwToob swayed me for a bit but I have
 > set off in a tangential direction, two months back.)

Okay, no problem. I think it's a cool feature and it'd nice if more BBS
packages and offline readers supported a compatible markup.

 >  RS> It's a sysop "opt-in" feature in sbbs v3.18c (per message area), but
 >  RS> I'll likely make it the default for newly created/added sub-boards in
 >  RS> the future once the feature is sufficiently tested.
 >
 >  RS> Here's a sample of what it looks like when using SyncTERM and custom
 >  RS> fonts:
 >  RS> https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApZPvWcrEaRQvOhXPHfQo0mI4N5_jg?e=wjy6qa
 >
 > My attention was immediately drawn to the 'underline' sample  It's a 60s
 > thing. It looks like a crazy OCR-A lowercase.  Groovy.

Yeah, until such time as we have a BBS terminal that actually support italics
and underlined text, it's the best I can do. :-)
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