Re: Concerning MAILPREP in XYWWWEB115.

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from "M.W. Poirier"  on Mon, 27
Oct 2003 19:57:09 -0400 (EDT)

Dear M. W.:

> I would not bother with MDBO.
> MDBO is not used very much in academic writing...
> So I would only be concerned with MDIT and occasionally with MDUL

But that's _you_. What about everybody else? My recollection is that I
wrote MAILPREP for _me_ (like pretty much everything I contribute to U2).
And I'm not the least concerned with academic writing -- certainly not in
Emails anyway. Who sends quality writing in an Email?

Let's be practical. Let's fix it for you, and anybody else who wants this
capability.

Make a copy of the original XyWbMail.PRN -- call it XyWbMail.BAK

Now we're free to alter XyWbMail.PRN, without needing to change anything else
-- not the PP: table nor SETTINGS.DFL nor anything. CAll XyWbMail.PRN into a
window.

Make these *simple* changes:

Find a table in there labeled "PT=1".
Change:
 MD UL=(*)
 MD IT=(*)
To:
 MD UL=(*+UNDERLINE)
 MD IT=(*+UNDERLINE)

Now *add* to the same table, anywhere within it, the following two specs:
 MD BU=(*)
 MD BI=(*)
That will serve to force MDBU and MDBI to be ignored.

There is another 3-line table in there labeled "FO:*".
*Insert* the following block of text into the file right *above*
this FO:* table (copy what's between the lines below, *excluding* the lines):
-------------------
;
;ATTRIBUTE DEFINITION
;
AT:UNDERLINE
AT<_
AT>_
ET
;
-------------------

SAve the file. Done. Test it. You'll get the result you want.
Let's hear from you AFTER you've tried it!

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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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