[459] in Zephyr_Comments
Re: Formatting commands
marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat May 26 18:31:25 1990
Again, what you are saying is valid, but I have a larger concern:
There are only 24 hours in a day. There are lots of things in Zephyr,
and at athena, which need to be changed. The ability to support
arbitrary formatting conventions would be nice, but it is hardly
critical. Zephyr servers which don't lose at the end of the term
would be far more useful than the ability to send zephyr messages
using Script formatting conventions.
Also, even if we choose to support TeX-like, EZ-like, or whatever kind
of formatting you want, we still need a consistent way to get that
information from the sender to the recipient. Since these are all
different ways of saying the same thing, I propose we convert
everything into scribe-like formatting, because the code already
exists. If you really thing @bold is too specific (I don't; at some
point generalization gets out of hand), I'll add @em to the next
version of zwgc.
Another subject, nomenclature. Usually, I use zgram to refer to any
part, in general: the message content, the window on my screen, the
UDP packets on the network. Message is the content, and usually,
windowgram will refer to a zgram in a window on screen. Most of the
time. Generally, I suggest that you look for context to make sure of
what I mean.
