Subj : another form of quoting
To   : Martin Foster
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Jan 18 2021 07:29:00

Hello Martin!

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

 MF> Hello August!

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

 AK>>> So I clarify how I did it: 1. You use Reformator as usual and
 AK>>> make
 MF> .1.
 AA>> 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.
 MF> .2.
 AA>> I just tried it. Seems to be a fine solution.

 MF> The quoted lines between ".1." and ".2." appear to have been written by
 MF> "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:


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


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

 MF> Fine but the lack of quote characters/initials makes it
 MF> quite difficult to follow a conversation when using the
 MF> 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!




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