[FFML] A thought on the future of the FFML

[Arthur Hansen]

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Arthur Hansen

Fan artist and author.


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wanderer has a point here.  For the most part, if
> we're to make this transition, it needs to be the
> *exact same* content between mailing list and
> forum, and that include markup (or lack thereof).
>
> A usable balance might well be to adopt the
> simple markup standard:
> *This is shown as bold in the Web forum.*
> /This is shown as italic in the Web forum./
> _This is shown as underlined in the Web forum._

I would rather not force new people to have to use an archaic
formatting technique just because some people are dead set on 'plain
text only, dammit'.

Sheesh, are you people going to yell at people to get off your lawn, too?

> http://links.likethis.com/are/treated/as/hyperlinks
> * This is a bullet point: note the post-star space.
>
> Would we need much more than that?
>
> That said, replying via Web forum might
> specifically not have a WYSIWYG editor, to
> reinforce that the value of your post is in the text,
> not the markup.  (Also set it to 72, or perhaps 80,
> columns and auto-add newlines as necessary to
> any lines that go beyond that.)