Dear Mary, @3-Sep-2004, 11:07 -0500 (03-Sep 17:07 UK time) Mary Bull [MB] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Marck:
MDP>> It's actually a bit more than a caveat. It's a potential show MDP>> stopper. ... <snip> MB> Thanks, Marck. So I'm running an apparently pointless poll. (No MB> pun on pointed-brackets intended.) Lol - it looks that way from where I sit. The way < and > (chevrons) are encoded in an HTML page or message is to represent them with < and > respectively. This also renders them incompatible with the goal of using them as smilie delimiters. ... <snip> MB> What about Andre's suggestion of * * ? As I just wrote to him, that MB> would interfere with a convention of using enclosure in asterisks to MB> indicate emphasis. That was my immediate reaction too. I have a feeling that Andre was being a little tongue-in-cheek there :-) . MB> But I want to do what best pleases both those who use the Smileys MB> feature and those who read the mails in PTV of the ones using MB> them, if the two goals don't turn out to be mutually exclusive. :) You know, I'm actually getting the impression that the colons are already a pretty clear and effective way to indicate them. And by using sensible handles, :grin: still looks reasonable as 'grin' wrapped in colons - the intent preserved, whatever the viewer. -- Cheers -- //.arck D Pearlstone --List moderator and fellow end user TB! v3.0 on Windows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 '
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