Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:37:42 -0500 From: "Paul B. Gallagher"
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[email protected] Subject: Re: TEXT PARTIALLY GRAY
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text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Daniel wrote:
> James, some people use signature blocks which contain their names,
> contact details, amusing quotes, whatever. These can be added,
> automatically, by telling SM where the sig file is.
>
> Then, at the end of the real message, SM adds a sig delimiter (a line
> consisting of two dashes followed by a space) and then adds, usually in
> a lighter text, the sig file.
Actually, the sig file is grayed out as a display feature, just as
quoted material is italicized or reddened (depending on your settings),
but if you look at the source code you'll see nothing -- no special
codes to make it do that. SM, like its predecessors, recognizes quote
marks and sig delimiters and uses that input to modify the display.
> If things are happening right, when that message is quoted the sig
> delimiter and the sig file are not quoted.
>
> But, if things don't happen right, the sig delimiter might not be
> removed, so anything after the sig delimiter is in the lighter text.
>
> Can be a real problem if people top post, i.e. reply at the top of the
> message.
Yep. Everything after their sig, including the entire original message,
is treated as their sig, which means a) it's grayed out, and b) it's
stripped out when the next person replies, a sort of automatic pruning.;-)
-- All it takes is a line of dash-dash-space for SM to decide this is
the sig and everything from here on out is grayed and stripped from
replies. See? My message now contains three sig delimiters, and
everything after the first one is grayed out.
-- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B.
Gallagher
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Your message is marked exactly as you say it should be on my end. As a
matter of fact the entire digest follows it correctly. Unless I'm
remembering it wrong other digests have had random mixes of light and
dark type. I'll check out a few more and shout back if I don't
understand it.
Thanks,
James
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