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- From: kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub)
- Subject: Re: ISO Code, bold, italic ....
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.142454@IASTATE.EDU>
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- References: <1jgip4INNqq1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1993Jan19.162234.4195@cs.nott.ac.uk> <1jm7ijINNre8@iraul1.ira.uka.de>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:24:54 GMT
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- In article <1jm7ijINNre8@iraul1.ira.uka.de>, S_KOEHLER@iravcl.ira.uka.de (|S|
- Tobias Koehler) writes:
- > 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).
-
- Sure, the extended characters can be abbreviated as multi letter combinations.
- the toggle could be some sort of combine command. Like \coe\c would mean to
- combine the oe into an o-umlaut. If the system doesn't have the character that
- combination corresponds to, it just ignores it and you get the standard
- approximation "oe".
-
- Note that the display program doesn't even have to worry about this. The
- update program would be the one going through replacing "combination"
- characters. The display programs wouldn't have to be changed at all.
-
- Of course, one of the main reasons I like this idea so much is because it
- isn't me that would have to write the code to do it :-)
-
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