"Why differential emphasis of text?" : (these are known facts, but needs to be elaborated, owing to the solid NO-RTF/HTML cry in the posts):
When we make a post considering an extended range of readers,(from the busy contributors to --especially-- the newbie user) , we may have to expand a lot. A long post is not preferred in Mailing List, and giving some emphasis to relevant part of it makes it easier for the busy men. Ways to asssert emphasis to parts of text: make Bold, Italics, connect with underscore, alter colour, give highlight etc Part of these methods add additional 'text tags' or non readable 'format data' to the paragraph. [a paragraph in terms of text renderers is a string of letters, which continues until we press 'enter' key.A new paragraph is born when 'enter' is pressed. Here the paragraph is different from its conventional literary sense.'Shift+Enter' is the right way to make a literary paragraph] Now if some people want to use Stone age software to read the communications which exploits possibility of 21st century protocols and compliant softwares, it absolutely OK for them to. [i havent had a single drop of 21st century allopathic medicine in my blood stream for some 6 years] Everybody has the right to adopt their ways and declare it, but no right to force it. Crying out to stop RTF/HTML as such would be a bad idea. Some days ago, 'Kerala Farmer' conducted a survey in this Mailing List, which had 'bold's in it. It attracted no irritation to bold_italics_underlines. Because its beautifully done,unlike my ways of RTFing. We can see some very productive improvements made to increase the survey's user friendliness there. -------------------------------- Consolidation regarding RTF-HTML / Plain text usage: Do not use any formating which adds additional characters to the original text, which gets displayed in the less-able software systems. As far as I know, BOLD and ITALIC adds no additional visible characters in such scenarios. These can be used in a positive way. As it consumes time and effort to differentiate parts of text, it would be recommended only at special circumsatnces. Like the following: the posts are very long, but cutting it short compromises readability of non-expert user . --------------------------------- On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 4:44 AM, nishandh M <pro.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nettiquette guidelines: http://www.rfc1855.net/ > > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:08 AM, nishandh M <pro.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:04 AM, ashik salahudeen <aash...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Nishandh , the first link you posted, the one at khandalaya has been >>> there in the group home page for sometime now :) if you do want to emphasize >>> then try and use underscores like _this_ . Just make sure that things you >>> post are in plaintext rather than HTML. >>> >> A part of http://kandalaya.org/guidelines.html submitted at our Mailing >> List home page: its a great read :D (warning: men like me also get poked >> :P) >> >> "List Admins typically put their Admin hat on infrequently, but when they >> do, please listen. If an Admin decides something, it's final. Fini. The End. >> Tan-tan-taaraa. If you don't like it, start another list of your own, start >> an underground (or public) movement to get the admin overthrown, or hire a >> couple of goons to visit him/her at 4am and give him/her a few broken ones. >> Just do not dispute the decision on the list: it'll probably end up getting >> you banned for a nice long time." >> >> (unauthorized reproduction for the sole purpose of publicity of source, I >> think I would be bailed out for that reason). >> >> @ Admins, am afraid of Goons, can we settle with a Coke? ;) Oh Nops but >> Coke is environmental and health hazard, so..mmm...err...Packaged Drinking >> Water? >> -- >> >> >> #//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////# >> "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" >> Leonardo da Vinci >> >> #//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////# >> >> > > > -- > > > #//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////# > "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" > Leonardo da Vinci > > #//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////# > > -- #//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////# "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" Leonardo da Vinci #//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////# -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
