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When displaying an email with embedded soft-styles such as bold/italic, etc. the mail will be displayed with the style markers '*' as well, why?
In versions previous to YAM 2.5+, email messages were displayed with the soft style markers in a mail. However, this cause severe trouble in case a style marker was incorrectly recognized so that text was mixed up. Especially for formatted text like stylished ASCII-art signatures or documentations this ended up in a completly mixed up display of the email. In addition, other mainstream email programs also didn't strip the soft-style markers for the very same reasons.
Example:
Considering that an author of an email wrote a short ASCII-art
documentation in an email to e.g. explain a bit mask that he used and
where he wanted to highlight the first bit as important in bold:
0 1 0 1 1 | | | | | | | | | bit5 *bit1* | | bit4 _ | bit3 _ bit2
Due to the used '*' bold-style characters this may have ended up looking like the following in YAM < 2.5 because the '*' chars were completly replaced by the bold style only:
0 1 0 1 1 | | | | | | | | | bit5 bit1 | | bit4 _ | bit3 _ bit2
As can be seen in that example, the ASCII-art here is completly mixed up due to the removed "*" bold-style characters.
However, now with YAM 2.5+ these kind of problems were fixed by keeping those soft-style characters in the showed mail text so that the above example now perfectly ends up being display correctly with the bold style and its markers:
0 1 0 1 1 | | | | | | | | | bit5 *bit1* | | bit4 _ | bit3 _ bit2
In addition to that fix, it is now more easily possible to spot which character can be used to start writing a word in bold style rather than having to always use the corresponding toolbar button.
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Last update: 2008-08-19 01:33
Author: Jens Langner
Revision: 1.4
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