[453] in Zephyr_Comments
Re: Formatting commands
raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu May 24 20:57:52 1990
There are some good ideas here. I'd like to just throw in a few
comments (not all of which are necessarily relevant):
* Notices contain several fields, each of which can contain text, and
each of which might want to specify its own formatting.
* The fields of the message _should_ be "raw" data; at present,
$default describes the use of it.
* The $default string might want to specify formatting.
* The .zwgc.desc file might want to specify formatting.
* The .zwgc.desc file is probably the only place where you'd want to
specify langauge (if you have the choice), but the "Sie haben neuen
Post..." has to come from somewhere. (A string table keyed partly
on language? Where would it be stored?)
* What if wdc writes an EZ/Andrew interface to Zephyr (either "zwrite"
or "zwgc")? That zwgc is the only display program seems like a
faulty assumption.
* Some notices (between services, for example) may not be interested
in formatting; the overhead should be minimal if it is not used.
