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 Message 645 
 August Abolins to Tim Schattkowsky 
 two // or not two // 
 07 Mar 22 11:03:00 
 
MSGID: 1:153/757.21@fidonet fa3605db
REPLY: 2:240/1120.29 4456cb8c
PID: OpenXP/5.0.51 (Win32)
CHRS: ASCII 1
TZUTC: -0500
Hello Tim Schattkowsky!

** On Monday 07.03.22 - 16:35, Tim Schattkowsky wrote to All:

 TS> //Hello August,//

 TS> on *06.03.2022* at *13:10:00* You wrote in Area *WINPOINT*
 TS> to *Martin Foster* about *"WinPoint Version 402.1"*.

 AA>> Interesting. Winpoint seems to deviate from the formatting
 AA>> "codes".  Instead of a single / around a word to italicise it,
 AA>> it uses two /'s.

 TS> I just double checked: WP supports BOTH.

 TS> This uses /one/ slash.
 TS> This uses //two// slashes.


Hmm...  This is the way that messsage looked here:

        https://susepaste.org/14106387

Not sure why even the single-slash did not render.  :(  Maybe I  
don't have a setting defined for it.


And here is the TB version:

        https://susepaste.org/87701307

Even the the fixed-font setting tries to render the italics  
just fine!  But the // goes ignored.




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