Subj : Re: I don't think there is a fido requirement to look pretty. ;)
To   : August Abolins
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Wed Dec 16 2020 12:19:19

On 16 Dec 2020, August Abolins said the following...
 AA>  CP> Pretty might not be a requirement, but ugly certainly gets complaints
 AA> 
 AA>  CP> See some of my copy/paste posts around for example.
 AA> 
 AA> Yes.. the articles that you shared from the internet did not  
 AA> look 100% readable on the fido side.
 AA> 
 AA> You didn't post them knowing that they would render conversion  
 AA> anomalies.   Some of us just pointed out the problem.
 AA> 
 AA> Most of the time the problem is just the opening and closing  
 AA> designs of the single and double quotes and the double-dash/ 
 AA> em-dash.
 AA> 
 AA> Maybe someone has come up with a solution for converting all  
 AA> of those in a tool - infact, there may already be a prog that  
 AA> I use that works.
 AA> 
 AA> Let me try a copy/paste of a paragraph from one of the  
 AA> articles that did not look pretty:
 AA> 
 AA> -=test start=-
 AA> 
 AA> Brown notes that the putative ninth planet-at 5,000 times the  
 AA> mass of Pluto-is sufficiently large that there should be no  
 AA> debate about whether it is a true planet. Unlike the class of  
 AA> smaller objects now known as dwarf planets, Planet Nine  
 AA> gravitationally dominates its neighborhood of the solar  
 AA> system. In fact, it dominates a region larger than any of the  
 AA> other known planets-a fact that Brown says makes it "the most
 AA> planet-y of the planets in the whole solar system."
 AA> 
 AA> The first possibility they investigated was that perhaps there  
 AA> are enough distant Kuiper Belt objects-some of which have not  
 AA> yet been discovered-to exert the gravity needed to keep that  
 AA> subpopulation clustered together.
 AA> 
 AA> -=test end=-
 AA> 
 AA> Wow. All the quotes were automatically converted to " and the  
 AA> em-dash was converted to a single dash.
 AA> 
 AA> OpenXP seems to handle that just fine.  ;)
 AA> 
 AA> Another tool that does the clean-up nicely is  
 AA> ReformatorQuoter, but it's a Windows prog.
 AA> 
 AA> I would imagine that there HAS to be something similar for  
 AA> linux/android.
 AA> 
 AA> 
 The thing is, you can't sau "Fido side" as a blanket statement. I am posting
from Fido, using Fido software, and did not see the issues which others
pointed out. My posts looked fine to me.  whether I was posting from HotdogEd
a native Android program, or now in Mystic, under a Termux window running as
Raspberry Pi vversiion of Linux and Mystic BBS.

There's something, somewhere that's borking the conversion with the messages
going out. Probably like Wilfred mentioned, lacking a Kludge somewhere.

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