Subj : I don't think there is a fido requirement to look pretty. ;)
To   : Charles Pierson
From : August Abolins
Date : Wed Dec 16 2020 01:16:00

Hello Charles!

** On Tuesday 15.12.20 - 17:25, Charles Pierson wrote to August Abolins:

 AA>> I don't think there is a fido requirement to look pretty. ;)
 AA>>
 AA>> But since a command symbol would need to be entered 4
 AA>> times, a key that doesn't require SHIFTing or ALTing
 AA>> would be nice.  See picture.


 CP> Pretty might not be a requirement, but ugly certainly gets complaints!

 CP> See some of my copy/paste posts around for example.

Yes.. the articles that you shared from the internet did not  
look 100% readable on the fido side.

You didn't post them knowing that they would render conversion  
anomalies.   Some of us just pointed out the problem.

Most of the time the problem is just the opening and closing  
designs of the single and double quotes and the double-dash/ 
em-dash.

Maybe someone has come up with a solution for converting all  
of those in a tool - infact, there may already be a prog that  
I use that works.

Let me try a copy/paste of a paragraph from one of the  
articles that did not look pretty:

-=test start=-

Brown notes that the putative ninth planet-at 5,000 times the  
mass of Pluto-is sufficiently large that there should be no  
debate about whether it is a true planet. Unlike the class of  
smaller objects now known as dwarf planets, Planet Nine  
gravitationally dominates its neighborhood of the solar  
system. In fact, it dominates a region larger than any of the  
other known planets-a fact that Brown says makes it "the most
planet-y of the planets in the whole solar system."

The first possibility they investigated was that perhaps there  
are enough distant Kuiper Belt objects-some of which have not  
yet been discovered-to exert the gravity needed to keep that  
subpopulation clustered together.

-=test end=-

Wow. All the quotes were automatically converted to " and the  
em-dash was converted to a single dash.

OpenXP seems to handle that just fine.  ;)

Another tool that does the clean-up nicely is  
ReformatorQuoter, but it's a Windows prog.

I would imagine that there HAS to be something similar for  
linux/android.


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