"Floyd L. Davidson" apaflo.com> wrote in message
news:87bq5opudb.fld@apaflo.com
: > "Ivor Jones" wrote:
: >>Explain again what exactly your *software* (as opposed
: >>to your eyes) does with quote marks anyway..?
: >
: > I thought you knew all about this???
: >
: > Specifically my software is the gnus package running
: > under XEmacs. I have it configured to display each
: > level of quoted text with a distinct font face. In this
: > case the significant difference is just the color of the
: > text.
: >
: > It can also do things like reformat quoted text, and
: > will maintain the appropriate quote prefix. The
: > paragraph quoted above, with your ':' quotes, ends up
: > like this if it is reformatted:
: >
: > >: > So just how many different possible quote
: > >characters is : > my software supposed to work for?
: > >Idiots who want to : > use a non-standard quote
: > >character can choose from 100 : > or so...
: >
: > If it had used standard quotes, it could be
: > reformatted to look like this:
: >
: > >> > So just how many different possible quote
: > >> > characters is my software supposed to work for?
: > >> > Idiots who want to use a non-standard quote
: > >> > character can choose from 100 or so...
Ok, fine. But you are over-complicating things IMHO. Why do you need
different fonts for different levels of quotes..? The beauty of Usenet to
me is it is (theoretically at any rate) in *plain ASCII text* so all this
mucking about with fonts, colours or whatever that people do on the web
is, or so I thought, mercifully absent.
Seems I was wrong. But I'm not changing my quote marks. Live with it or
plonk me, it's all the same to me.
