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Re: [Pan-users] underlines etc in pan


From: Sebastian Fischer
Subject: Re: [Pan-users] underlines etc in pan
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 20:42:33 +0100
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Am Montag, 4. November 2002 20:13 schrieb Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom:

> > Hmm I don't think so. I know nobody who would write _this_ way without
> > meaning underline.
>
>       but that's the simple case. :) there's probably some degenerate
> corner case where it breaks down. such as:
>
> "If I call function do_foo in bar, is _does not mean do_foo_bar_"
>
>       can you guarantee that your parser will render all that correctly?

I can't, but knode for example does.  ;)  Nothing got underlined and this 
seems to be correct to me.

>       how much time will you spend getting it all right?
>       will it be 'right' by everyone's interpretation of the sentence?
>       will the underlining obscure the intended underscores, thus
> obscuring the original poster's message? (I've seen HTML renderers do
> this).

I fully understand your point of view. I simply considered this "feature" so 
exotic, that pan does not do it. For the most part I thought I was only to 
stupid to find the option that makes it work. Now I know more again.

Sebastian


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