On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:09:19 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time) Vadim Zeitlin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

VZ> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:18:24 +1000 (EST) Mark Livingstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

 Testing, testing, 1.2.3. ;-D
 
 normal
*bold* normal
_italic_ normal

VZ> 
VZ>  Hmm, this is misleading: there are no starts nor underscores above, so why
VZ> "bold" and "italic"?

Would you accept crammer's nerves as an excuse ;-)

normal
*bold words* normal
 _italic words_ normal
 normal

VZ> ML> I did myself a test as above and sent it to myself. I then displayed the
VZ> ML> results of the three viewers.
VZ> ML> 
VZ> ML> It appeas that Trivial markup is getting worse not better. 
VZ> 
VZ>  I don't see any regressions...
VZ> 
VZ> ML> Multiple words do not work under any of the filters.
VZ> 
VZ>  No. This is on purpose, if we allow spaces inside a marked up word, there
VZ> are too many "false positives". It really does very strange thing to C++
VZ> code in the viewer (e.g. imagine how "int *p, *q" is going to be shown).
VZ> Maybe this should be an option as not everybody probably reads C++ code in
VZ> mail daily...

I agree. 

VZ> 
VZ> ML> Bold works under text viewer (except it gobbles the delimiter
VZ> ML> chars from single italic words).
VZ> 
VZ>  Sorry, what do you mean? I.e. an example of what does it show wrongly?
VZ> 
VZ> ML> Is there some way that TextMarkup.cpp can be told what viewer it is being
VZ> ML> attached to / used by and therefore what markups it may / may not do?
VZ> 
VZ>  This can be done but I don't think it's so useful because the viewer (a)
VZ> should always be capable of showing both bold and italic and, (b) it can
VZ> always add stars/underscores back itself if it can't.

Dr. QA





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