[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can do that in HTML, either you use CSS or you can use a more basic (but >wastefull) approach by using tables. But neither is as easy as using ANSI.SYS I tried Bernie, but then I was trying something new.
I was creating an ebook, but colorized the text. in dialogue, all the female voices were reds and all the male voices were blues. and both colors could run togather in short sentances. Like this. and they could do it all in the same paragraph. which is much more like people actually speak, that is along a train of thought. but changing the colors within paragraphs like this, would be a nightmare in html. Another thing I liked about Arachne is that it let me use my familiar text editor. and while drag and drop is easy to learn, it is not nearly as fast as the dos hotkey method of finding text segments in other documents and importing them in email. I remember BBS email that used ansi which showed me your letters in one color, mine in another, and a third party in a third. Lots less confusion online about just who said what. And that further it only took a hotkey to change the color of any WORD in the text rather than using *asterisks* or whatever. The only thing that occured to me first, was that it'd be neat to codify the ladies in reds. But then I saw how much neater it is than- he said: this she said : this here. he said: but. she said : everything he was spozed to hear... and so on, with lots of white space on the right. which is what we see in real books all the time. All the hype about the gui interface left some very real functionality in ansi color behind.
