Subj : bold italic underline - how?
To   : Rob Swindell
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Sun Oct 18 2020 06:34:43

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 pm

 >>         STYLECODES <yes/hide/no>  (hide)

 RS> I'm curious about the history of these "StyleCodes" supported by
 RS> GoldEd+. Anyone know where/when their original inspiration was? GoldEd
 RS> and GoldEd+ don't actually support stylized text (just normal CGA
 RS> color/brightness text attributes), so it seems to me there must have
 RS> been some other FidoNet software that actually supported
 RS> bold/italic/underlined text display using those codes first. Anyone 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'.

Cheers,
Paul.

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