Tuesday, September 28, 1999, 9:34:39 AM, Ali wrote:
> Ooops. Well, TB! has already broken this de facto standard by including
> initials etc.
Nope, initials are allowed. Generally if you have the quote prefix within
the first, uhmmm, I think it is 5 characters it is ok.
> Funny, this is why I ditched using the quote prefixes. No client which
> supports colour differentiation seems to get it right with the initials in
> the quote prefix. Not even Gravity.:)
Quite a few do from my perspective. Of course, that perspective is the
Unix world, not the Windows world.
> By the way, I thought that the quote prefix was used mainly to differentiate
> quotes from non-quotes?
Yes. The defacto standard is >. Software, knowing this, uses that to
color the quotes to make it stand out even more. Some will even color
different levels of quotes with different colors.
> This color coding that you speak of seems to be confined to only a limited
> number if clients
Again, from your perspective maybe. From mine it is common fair. It is
actually uncommon for me to see clients that don't do coloring of that nature
any more.
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