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- From: S_KOEHLER@iravcl.ira.uka.de (|S| Tobias Koehler)
- Newsgroups: alt.galactic-guide
- Subject: ISO Code, bold, italic ....
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 13:13:55 GMT
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe (FRG) - Informatik Rechnerabt.
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- In-Reply-To: pcxkrm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk's message of 19 Jan 93 16:22:34 GMT
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- In <1993Jan19.162234.4195@cs.nott.ac.uk> pcxkrm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk writes:
-
- > In article <1jgip4INNqq1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> UKJP@DKAUNI2.BITNET (tobias b koehler) writes:
-
- > >In my opinion 7 bit is NOT enough, as the aforementioned examples show.
-
- > OK - we have the problem here that most micros will only deal with a 256
- > piece character set - any standard above this will create huge problems in
- > translation - it's not only UNIX systems we're talking about here! The fonts
- > I deal with quite often don't have the whole standard 256, let alone any more!
-
- Yes, but all of today's micros should handle a 256 charset like ISO 8859/1. If
- the computer has a different character set (IBM PCs and clones use the codepage
- 437 in DOS and the codepage 850 in OS/2 and still another character set in
- Windows, while the Amiga does use the ISO charset), the articles must be con-
- verted by the reader programs. If someone really writes a reader for a 7-bit
- machine, these characters must be converted into ae, ue or whatever.
- (Does anybody know if there is a standard characterset for UNIX systems?)
-
- I think that in the future the reader program should do the line breaking.
- Not all of today's systems have 80 column screens. If a reader is used on
- OS/2, Xwindows or Windows, the user should be able to decide freely how wide
- he wants his window to be, and the reader program should break the lines so
- that the article fits into the window. (Is this feature going to be included
- into TGW?)
-
- > I still think that we should have a simple system for bold and italic, in the
- > same way we do underlining. This could be a "toggle" character, as with the
- > underline, or a slightly more complex internal command system, perhaps
- > starting with "\", as this seems to be a fairly standard control
- > character (TeX, C etc.)
-
- Until now we only had _underlining_. And I don't know if any Guide reader took
- care of this. Taking a single character as toggle character is a good idea.
- If we take \, it can be interpreted together with the next letter as a toggle
- signal. For example \bHoopy\b would give you the word Hoopy in bold print.
- \b switches to bold, and back to nonbold again. Similarly we can use \i for
- italic, \u for underlining, \e for superscript, \s for subscript. If one wants
- to have a backslash in the text, it can be generated with \\. This system
- allows to have a pretty screen image (on systems with graphics mode) and,
- for example together with LaTeX, a nice output. One could even write a LaTeX
- style that inputs an article directly. (It should take care of the extended
- character set, as described above).
-
- So long
-
- -=- tobi -=-
-