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Article #1274Formatting in the text
From: Marc Andreessen
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 21:50
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 21:50
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For example: suppose there was a boldface word in the middle of otherwise plain text. If you moved the insertion point into the middle of that word and typed a character, that character would be inserted in boldface in every word processor I've seen. The "fonts attached to characters" model would suggest that it should be inserted in whatever the current "global" font was. That it is inserted in bold suggests to me that there is a "bold region" in the buffer, -not- that this particular set of characters, which just happen to be consecutive, have the "bold" bit set on them. I don't understand why this behavior wouldn't just indicate that the word processor uses the attributes associated with the character immediately before point when inserting a character... Marc -- Marc Andreessen Epoch Development Team University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc7ee,13fd30da87d92cc5 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc7ee,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-06-25 22:59:42 PST Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!ncsa.uiuc.edu!marca From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) Subject: Formatting in the text Message-ID: <9206261150.AA15664@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu> Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet References: <JWZ.92Jun25220610@thalidomide.lucid.com> Distribution: gnu Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1992 21:50:22 GMT Lines: 22