Re: [Pan-users] underlines etc in pan

[Wolf J . Flywheel]

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On Monday 04 November 2002 11:39, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

Hi, all...

        I'm going to chime in, since I'd like to see this implemented.

> d. what about copying text? what happens when you copy the 'modified'
> text? it's no longer what the poster originally wrote. there's no way
> to convert the text back from its 'modified' form, to its original form
> when it's copied.

        Sure there is.  You still have the original message text.  The original 
text should be copied to the clipboard if the user selects 
bold/underlined/whatever text.  After all, this is X11 -- what sort of 
uniform way do we have of noting non-standard text?  None at all!  :)

> e. I don't see any real benefit to it.

        Neither do I, but I'd very much like to see the *perceived* (read that 
as boldface ;) benefit of having these text markups parsed and rendered 
as enhanced text.  In other words, I realize it's only cosmetic, but lots 
of people use this pseudo-markup and so I would like to see Pan handle it.

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