Subj : bold italic underline - how?
To   : Paul Quinn
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Sat Oct 17 2020 02:33 pm

  Re: bold italic underline - how?
  By: Paul Quinn to Rob Swindell on Sun Oct 18 2020 06:34 am

 > Hi! Rob,
 >
 > On 10/18/2020 06:17 AM, you wrote to Stas Mishchenkov:
 >  RS>    Re: bold italic underline - how?
 >  RS>    By: Stas Mishchenkov to August Abolins on Thu Oct 15 2020 10:11 pm
 >
 >  >>         STYLECODES <yes/hide/no>  (hide)
 >
 >  RS> I'm curious about the history of these "StyleCodes" supported by
 >  RS> GoldEd+. Anyone know where/when their original inspiration was? GoldEd
 >  RS> and GoldEd+ don't actually support stylized text (just normal CGA
 >  RS> color/brightness text attributes), so it seems to me there must have
 >  RS> been some other FidoNet software that actually supported
 >  RS> bold/italic/underlined text display using those codes first. Anyone
 >  RS> know?
 >
 > I don't know for certain.  But I have to say that the point package called
 > SemPoint for Windows had a really nice mode.  It used Windows fonts to
 > portray/display the actual styles on characters in FTN messages, in response
 > to the style codes.  It called the mode something like 'rich text'.

Thanks for the pointer! I installed sempoint v2.26 (16-bit Windows programs, remember those? That was fun) just so I could read the help text, and indeed, it describes its "rich text" feature as you said. It appears to support bold, italic, underline (and combinations of those) using the same syntax as GoldEd but does not mention the inverse style supported in GoldEd (#this#). Still, appears to be the likely impetus. Thanks again!

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