[JDEV] client proposal

[Thomas D. Charron]

  That's what the MIME type tags where for that where proposed and pretty much approved several months ago..  Aka, text/html, text/rtf, etc.  The plain old text reallyt shouldn't have formatting chars built in, IMHO.
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Thomas Charron

On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 13:34:05   Jerrad Pierce wrote:
>message formatting.
>
>a la zephyr
>
>@style[text]
>
>style           does                 alias
>@bold           Bold                 @b
>@center         Centered text        @c
>@huge           Huge text	     
>@italic         Italicized           @i
>@large          large text
>@plain          Normal text
>@right          Right aligned text
>@small          Small text
>
>any bracketing tags can be used in place of [].
>styles can be imbeded ad infinitum
>
>just a thought of course this means @ needs to be escaped if it wants to be
>displayed. but a smart parser should realize if there is no container tag,
>then no message formatting is to take place, and leave the @ alone
>
>I realize a lot of people would probably want HTML style formatting, I don't
>see why both couldn't be implemented. Of course it's entirely up to the
>client.
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