Subj : Re^2:  WinPoint Version 402.1
To   : Martin Foster
From : Tim Schattkowsky
Date : Mon Mar 07 2022 16:31:26

//Hello Martin,//

on *07.03.2022* at *15:29:31* *Tim Schattkowsky* wrote in area *WINPOINT*
to *you* about *"Re: WinPoint Version 402.1"*:

 TS> Hello Martin,

 TS> on 07.03.2022 at 11:46:42 You wrote in Area WINPOINT to August Abolins
 TS> about "WinPoint Version 402.1".

 MF>> Hello August!

 MF>> *** Sunday 06.03.22 at 13:10:00, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 MF>>>> However, I've discovered that messages written by me using WinPoint
 MF>>>> ARE, in fact, italicised in the message list, whereas messages written
 MF>>>> by me using OpenXP are NOT italicised in the message list. I'm now
 MF>>>> left wondering if this is by design or whether it's a bug ??

 AA>>> Interesting. Winpoint seems to deviate from the formatting
 AA>>> "codes".  Instead of a single / around a word to italicise it,
 AA>>> it uses two /'s.

 MF>> Hmmmm, well, there must be a valid reason for that but what, I really
 MF>> don't know.

 AA>>> With two /'s, the italics fails in OpenXP as well as in Thunderbird.

 MF>> I can't really comment about Thunderbird but AFAIK, OpenXP doesn't
 MF>> support italic text.

 TS> As a matter of fact, I do not recall anymore why it is like that ... but
 TS> it has been for 20 years now without complaint. That may be related to
 TS> the fact, that italics have been rarely used in the past as text displays
 TS> had no appropriate way to render them. Still today, italics rendering for
 TS> monospaced fonts has quality issues (as can be seen in WP). I can only
 TS> recall, that for example Spot on the Amiga (which I used before moving to
 TS> OS/2 and before writing WP) was indeed using a single slash, but nobody
 TS> used it.

 TS> I can only speculate, that back in the days I was aware and of the single
 TS> slash practice and had whatever reason to deviate from it. Today my first
 TS> reflex would be indeed to say, the single slash makes more sense.

 TS> However, interestingly I NEVER noticed anyone using the single slash in a
 TS> message as that would stand out in WPs display. I do see WP users using
 TS> the WP-style from time to time, but of course I am to blame for that.

I might add, that having more than one character as the indicator indeed complicates the involved code a lot, so I really think I did do that for a reason. Still, that reason might be no longer valid. 

Regards,
Tim
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