Re: keyboard markup

From: Alan Horkan (horkana@maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 15:38:37 EDT

  • Next message: Alan G Isaac: "Fwd: Re[2]: keyboard markup"

    On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Dom Lachowicz wrote:

    > Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 09:20:41 -0700 (PDT)
    > From: Dom Lachowicz <domlachowicz@yahoo.com>
    > To: aisaac@american.edu, abiword-user <abiword-user@abisource.com>
    > Subject: Re: keyboard markup
    >
    > This is considered under the general category of
    > "auto-correction" that might happen after 2.0.
    >
    > Dom
    >
    > --- Alan G Isaac <aisaac@american.edu> wrote:
    > > One of the (few) nice keyboard oriented features
    > > in Word is that you can force *bold markup* with
    > > asterisks and force _italic markup_ with
    > > underscores.
    > >
    > > Is AbiWord considering these?

    If you send a Mail with this markup to Mozilla users they will see the
    text as _underlined_ /italit/ or *bold*.

    In case you had not noticed the "Human Readable Text" exporter for Abiword
    will take text and output it as plain text with simple charcter based
    markup.

    Sincerely

    Alan Horkan
    http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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