styles

[leslie bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Shawn Harrison wanted to know from Ken and myself more about styles:

Well, I'll let Ken fill you in on the details. You'll forgive me, I'm
sure, Shawn, for being a bit vague after all this time. You asked an
interesting question about the difference between Xy styles and
HTML/XML. You're
quite correct. The thinking is different.

A Xywrite style might look like this:



Which would return:

Jack
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy. . . . .

Yes, the 
 code is maintained until canceled.

the "MLs" would, however require this.

Jack
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.


That, to my way of thinking is _not_ a better way to do things, but we
all have to deal with the world as it is. One solution might be to add a
style like , which would put in a redundant (to XyWrite at least)
"cancel code" where I have put the  and the  again.

It would, if you attempt this, might also be wise to create a style
called  and use it rather than the normal mode codes.

Would this help in your translations to other programs, perhaps?

Cheers!

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Leslie Bialler
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