• another form of quoting

    From August Abolins@2:460/58 to Alexander Koryagin on Wed Dec 2 03:04:11 2020

    So I clarify how I did it: 1. You use Reformator as usual and make quoting for the message, you can add your text. All the quotes will consists of short lines. 2. You press "Unform. sel text" and you get the message with all lines flowed (one line paragraps). It is not necessary to select the text lines if you do operation for all the text. Don't forget that paragraphs should be separated by a empty line.

    I just tried it. Seems to be a fine solution. We don't really need initials on every line. The above "AK>" should look pretty good on my much smaller Blackberry.

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  • From Martin Foster@2:250/1.333 to August Abolins on Sun Jan 17 10:52:21 2021
    Hello August!

    *** Wednesday December 02 2020 03:04, you wrote to Alexander Koryagin:

    So I clarify how I did it: 1. You use Reformator as usual and
    make
    .1.
    quoting for the message, you can add your text. All the quotes will consists of short lines. 2. You press "Unform. sel text" and you get
    the message with all lines flowed (one line paragraps). It is not necessary to select the text lines if you do operation for all the
    text. Don't forget that paragraphs should be separated by a empty
    line.
    .2.
    I just tried it. Seems to be a fine solution.

    We don't really need initials on every line.

    I beg to differ :)

    The quoted lines between ".1." and ".2." appear to have been written by "AA"(you) when, in fact, they were written by "AK"(Alexander).

    The above "AK>" should look pretty good on my much smaller Blackberry.

    Fine but the lack of quote characters/initials makes it quite difficult to follow a conversation when using the likes of GoldED+ et al.

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    Regards,
    Martin

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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Martin Foster on Sun Jan 17 06:46:00 2021
    Hello Martin!

    ** On Sunday 17.01.21 - 10:52, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

    We don't really need initials on every line.

    I beg to differ :)

    The quoted lines between ".1." and ".2." appear to have
    been written by "AA"(you) when, in fact, they were written
    by "AK"(Alexander).

    I don't have the original in my OpenXP that was dated Dec 1. :(
    But I beg to differ on your non-deference. There's a lot of
    begging going on.


    The above "AK>" should look pretty good on my much smaller
    Blackberry.

    Fine but the lack of quote characters/initials makes it
    quite difficult to follow a conversation when using the
    likes of GoldED+ et al.

    Isn't there any way to adjust the quoting behaviour of GoldED?

    Couldn't you clean up the quoting with a simple removal of the
    rogue quotes using column edit? Maybe a little macro to delete
    the added initials and the ">" char and the space on the
    required line could expedite things.

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    ../|ug

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  • From Martin Foster@2:250/1.333 to August Abolins on Mon Jan 18 11:27:06 2021
    Hello August!

    *** Sunday January 17 2021 06:46, you wrote to me:

    We don't really need initials on every line.

    I beg to differ :)

    The quoted lines between ".1." and ".2." appear to have
    been written by "AA"(you) when, in fact, they were written
    by "AK"(Alexander).

    I don't have the original in my OpenXP that was dated Dec 1. :(

    If you still had it, you would immediately see where the problem lies.

    But I beg to differ on your non-deference. There's a lot of
    begging going on.

    The above "AK>" should look pretty good on my much smaller
    Blackberry.

    Fine but the lack of quote characters/initials makes it
    quite difficult to follow a conversation when using the
    likes of GoldED+ et al.

    Isn't there any way to adjust the quoting behaviour of GoldED?

    No idea but it's not a GoldED problem anyway.

    Regards,
    Martin

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  • From August Abolins@2:221/6 to Martin Foster on Mon Jan 18 14:20:00 2021
    On 1/17/2021 3:52 AM, between "Martin Foster - August Abolins":

    MF wrote:
    ========
    So I clarify how I did it: 1. You use Reformator as usual and
    make
    .1.
    quoting for the message, you can add your text. All the quotes will consists of short lines. 2. You press "Unform. sel text" and you get
    the message with all lines flowed (one line paragraps). It is not necessary to select the text lines if you do operation for all the
    text. Don't forget that paragraphs should be separated by a empty
    line.
    .2.
    I just tried it. Seems to be a fine solution.

    We don't really need initials on every line.


    MF wrote:
    ========
    I beg to differ :)

    The quoted lines between ".1." and ".2." appear to have been written by "AA"(you) when, in fact, they were written by "AK"(Alexander).

    There are other ways to quote, which can be utilized. See above.

    But personally, I would venture to write a reply with the least amount of quoting if possible.

    MF wrote:
    ========
    The above "AK>" should look pretty good on my much smaller Blackberry.

    Fine but the lack of quote characters/initials makes it quite difficult to follow a conversation when using the likes of GoldED+ et al.

    I'll show you another way. But I'll dig up the original message from Dec 1.

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  • From August Abolins@1:396/45.29 to Martin Foster on Mon Jan 18 07:29:00 2021
    Hello Martin!

    ** On Sunday 17.01.21 - 10:52, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

    Hello August!

    *** Wednesday December 02 2020 03:04, you wrote to Alexander Koryagin:

    So I clarify how I did it: 1. You use Reformator as usual and
    make
    .1.
    quoting for the message, you can add your text. All the quotes will
    consists of short lines. 2. You press "Unform. sel text" and you get
    the message with all lines flowed (one line paragraps). It is not
    necessary to select the text lines if you do operation for all the
    text. Don't forget that paragraphs should be separated by a empty
    line.
    .2.
    I just tried it. Seems to be a fine solution.

    The quoted lines between ".1." and ".2." appear to have been written by "AA"(you) when, in fact, they were written by "AK"(Alexander).

    That is true. But that is because you allowed the poor
    assumptions of the quoting system to mis-quote! <G>

    It would be just as easy to take the original, and adjust it to
    the follwoing:


    So I clarify how I did it: 1. You use Reformator as usual
    and make .1. quoting for the message, you can add your
    text. All the quotes will consists of short lines. 2. You
    press "Unform. sel text" and you get the message with all
    lines flowed (one line paragraps). It is not necessary to
    select the text lines if you do operation for all the
    text. Don't forget that paragraphs should be separated by
    a empty line. .2. I just tried it. Seems to be a fine
    solution.

    Now it is quoted correctly. That was easy, all within OpenXP in
    this case. You ought to be able to do so similarly with GoldED,
    no?


    The above "AK>" should look pretty good on my much smaller
    Blackberry.

    Fine but the lack of quote characters/initials makes it
    quite difficult to follow a conversation when using the
    likes of GoldED+ et al.

    I dunno. Here's ANOTHER way that AK's paragraph could have been
    quoted, and it seems very easy to "follow".

    AK>>>
    So I clarify how I did it: 1. You use Reformator as usual and
    make .1. quoting for the message, you can add your text. All
    the quotes will consists of short lines. 2. You press "Unform.
    sel text" and you get the message with all lines flowed (one
    line paragraps). It is not necessary to select the text lines
    if you do operation for all the text. Don't forget that
    paragraphs should be separated by a empty line. .2. I just
    tried it. Seems to be a fine solution.
    <<<AK

    Works for me!




    --
    ../|ug

    --- OpenXP 5.0.48
    * Origin: (1:396/45.29)
  • From Alexander Koryagin@2:460/58 to August Abolins on Wed Jan 20 15:40:02 2021
    Hello Martin!

    ** On Sunday 17.01.21 - 10:52, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

    Hello August!

    *** Wednesday December 02 2020 03:04, you wrote to Alexander Koryagin:

    So I clarify how I did it: 1. You use Reformator as usual and
    make
    .1.
    quoting for the message, you can add your text. All the quotes will AA>> consists of short lines. 2. You press "Unform. sel text" and you get AA>> the message with all lines flowed (one line paragraps). It is not AA>> necessary to select the text lines if you do operation for all the AA>> text. Don't forget that paragraphs should be separated by a empty AA>> line.
    .2.
    I just tried it. Seems to be a fine solution.

    The quoted lines between ".1." and ".2." appear to have been written by
    "AA"(you) when, in fact, they were written by "AK"(Alexander).

    That is true. But that is because you allowed the poor
    assumptions of the quoting system to mis-quote! <G>

    It would be just as easy to take the original, and adjust it to
    the follwoing:


    So I clarify how I did it: 1. You use Reformator as usual
    and make .1. quoting for the message, you can add your
    text. All the quotes will consists of short lines. 2. You
    press "Unform. sel text" and you get the message with all
    lines flowed (one line paragraps). It is not necessary to
    select the text lines if you do operation for all the
    text. Don't forget that paragraphs should be separated by
    a empty line. .2. I just tried it. Seems to be a fine
    solution.

    Now it is quoted correctly. That was easy, all within OpenXP in
    this case. You ought to be able to do so similarly with GoldED,
    no?


    The above "AK>" should look pretty good on my much smaller
    Blackberry.

    Fine but the lack of quote characters/initials makes it
    quite difficult to follow a conversation when using the
    likes of GoldED\+ et al.

    I dunno. Here's ANOTHER way that AK's paragraph could have been
    quoted, and it seems very easy to "follow".


    So I clarify how I did it: 1. You use Reformator as usual and
    make .1. quoting for the message, you can add your text. All
    the quotes will consists of short lines. 2. You press "Unform.
    sel text" and you get the message with all lines flowed (one
    line paragraps). It is not necessary to select the text lines
    if you do operation for all the text. Don't forget that
    paragraphs should be separated by a empty line. .2. I just
    tried it. Seems to be a fine solution.
    <<<AK

    Works for me!




    --
    ../|ug

    The main problem are the users with smartphone small displays. For them the paragraphs should be in flowed manner. In this case citation marks will be good enough. Another problem is the changing of quotations level. You put AK>>>. Should be it be counted manually?

    Flowed paragraphs:
    -----Beginning of the citation-----
    I dunno. Here's ANOTHER way that AK's paragraph could have been quoted, and it seems very easy to "follow". AA>>>>

    AK>>>
    So I clarify how I did it: 1. You use Reformator as usual and make. 1. quoting for the message, you can add your text. All the quotes will consists of short lines. 2. You press "Unform. sel text" and you get the message with all lines flowed (one line paragraps). It is not necessary to select the text lines if you do operation for all the text. Don't forget that paragraphs should be separated by a empty line.. 2. I just tried it. Seems to be a fine solution.
    <<<AK

    Works for me!
    ----- The end of the citation -----


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  • From Alexander Koryagin@2:460/58 to August Abolins on Wed Jan 20 15:49:23 2021
    Hello Martin!

    ** On Sunday 17.01.21 - 10:52, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

    Hello August!

    *** Wednesday December 02 2020 03:04, you wrote to Alexander Koryagin:

    So I clarify how I did it: 1. You use Reformator as usual and
    make
    .1.
    quoting for the message, you can add your text. All the quotes will AA>> consists of short lines. 2. You press "Unform. sel text" and you get AA>> the message with all lines flowed (one line paragraps). It is not AA>> necessary to select the text lines if you do operation for all the AA>> text. Don't forget that paragraphs should be separated by a empty AA>> line.
    .2.
    I just tried it. Seems to be a fine solution.

    The quoted lines between ".1." and ".2." appear to have been written by
    "AA"(you) when, in fact, they were written by "AK"(Alexander).

    That is true. But that is because you allowed the poor
    assumptions of the quoting system to mis-quote! <G>

    It would be just as easy to take the original, and adjust it to
    the follwoing:


    So I clarify how I did it: 1. You use Reformator as usual
    and make .1. quoting for the message, you can add your
    text. All the quotes will consists of short lines. 2. You
    press "Unform. sel text" and you get the message with all
    lines flowed (one line paragraps). It is not necessary to
    select the text lines if you do operation for all the
    text. Don't forget that paragraphs should be separated by
    a empty line. .2. I just tried it. Seems to be a fine
    solution.

    Now it is quoted correctly. That was easy, all within OpenXP in
    this case. You ought to be able to do so similarly with GoldED,
    no?


    The above "AK>" should look pretty good on my much smaller
    Blackberry.

    Fine but the lack of quote characters/initials makes it
    quite difficult to follow a conversation when using the
    likes of GoldED\+ et al.

    I dunno. Here's ANOTHER way that AK's paragraph could have been
    quoted, and it seems very easy to "follow".


    So I clarify how I did it: 1. You use Reformator as usual and
    make .1. quoting for the message, you can add your text. All
    the quotes will consists of short lines. 2. You press "Unform.
    sel text" and you get the message with all lines flowed (one
    line paragraps). It is not necessary to select the text lines
    if you do operation for all the text. Don't forget that
    paragraphs should be separated by a empty line. .2. I just
    tried it. Seems to be a fine solution.
    <<<AK

    Works for me!




    --
    ../|ug

    If we have items in our paragraphs, they could be in the flowed style too.

    -----Beginning of the citation-----
    I dunno. Here's ANOTHER way that AK's paragraph could have been quoted, and it seems very easy to "follow". <AA

    AK>>>
    So I clarify how I did it:
    1. You use Reformator as usual and make quoting for the message, you can add your text. All the quotes will consists of short lines.
    2. You press "Unform. sel text" and you get the message with all lines flowed (one line paragraps). It is not necessary to select the text lines if you do operation for all the text. Don't forget that paragraphs should be separated by a empty line.
    <<<AK

    I just tried it. Seems to be a fine solution. <<AA

    Works for me! <AA
    ----- The end of the citation -----

    Difficult? But if the more text be nice, the people will like it.


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  • From August Abolins@1:396/45.29 to Alexander Koryagin on Mon Jan 25 09:07:00 2021
    Hello Alexander!

    ** On Wednesday 20.01.21 - 15:40, Alexander Koryagin wrote to August Abolins:

    The main problem are the users with smartphone small
    displays. For them the paragraphs should be in flowed
    manner. In this case citation marks will be good enough.

    I've heard that most users of smartphones can flip the screen to
    landscape orientation and get a wider reading window. Myself,
    my Blackberry only has a square 2"x2" screen.


    Another problem is the changing of quotations level. You
    put AK>>>. Should be it be counted manually?

    I don't think the level matters as much as the initials.

    Even AA::: or AA=== or AA/// would be fine with me.


    --
    ../|ug

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