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Subject: [openxp] Styled Text Date: Wed Mar 16 2022 01:07 pm
From: Martin Foster To: August Abolins

Hello August!

*** Monday 14.03.22 at 22:09, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 MF>>>> It doesn't support underlined either.

 AA>>> underline DOES get represented by changing colour here!

 MF>> Yes and that's exactly what happens here but it doesn't alter the fact
 MF>> that it isn't rendered in the way in which it was intended to be
 MF>> rendered.

 AA> Here is what I was looking for:

 AA> ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
 AA> ║                                                        ║
 AA> ║  It is common practice to emphasise words by enclosing ║
 AA> ║  them in *asterisks* or _underlines_. This switch      ║
 AA> ║  causes OpenXP to take words enclosed by these         ║
 AA> ║  characters and display them in a different colour,    ║
 AA> ║  which can be set in /Config/Display/Colors/Lister.    ║
 AA> ║                                                        ║
 AA> ║  [x]     Emphasise these words in a different          ║
 AA> ║          colour.                                       ║
 AA> ║                                                        ║
 AA> ║  [ ]     Do not emphasise by colour.                   ║
 AA> ║                                                        ║
 AA> ║  You can toggle this setting at any time (if you want  ║
 AA> ║  to take off the rose coloured spectacles) by pressing ║
 AA> ║  the C key (for Colour).                               ║

Ah yes, good find :)

That would be the help topic for this:

Config -> Options -> Message Reader
-----------------------------------
+- Internal message reader options ------------+
|                                              |
|   [x]   Full screen                          |
|   [x]   Display clock                        |
|   [x]   Line break in column 80              |
|   [x]   Show reference arrows                |
|   [ ]   Fixed message header display         |
|                                              |
|   [ ]   Convert German ISO Umlauts           |
|   [x]   Use UTF-8                            |
|   [x]   *Highlight* words by colour    <<---------
|   [ ]   Multi-coloured quotes                |
|                                              |
|   [ ]   Mouse scroll bar                     |
|   [x]   AutoScrolling                        |
|                                              |
|   [ ]   Exit message reader with <Return>    |
|                                              |
|  Viewer for URLs  explorer                   |
+----------------------------------------------+

Regards,
Martin

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