Re: text/enriched1993-08-05 15:49:10Excerpts from mail: 4-Aug-93 text/enriched Chris Newman(_at_)cmu(_dot_)edu (2519) 1) I have already written a text/richtext parser. It was easy to Well, "no gain" is certainly debatable. The changes from richtext to enriched are not that great, and are (for the most part) well-motivated. In particular, the change to the newline handling strikes me as a significant step forward in readability. 2) Here at CMU there are a number of richtext generating clients, as Interesting. It is precisely the richtext generated by newer versions of Andrew that people have found so unreadable. I'm sending this message in that format as an example. 3) The <verbatim> command is awful. It creates an entirely different Well, you're the second person to weigh in that way, whereas several people seemed to really want this feature. My own position is largely one of wanting a consensus. If there are people who feel they can't live without vebatim, or otherwise really like it, would they please speak up? 4) Creating yet-another-richtext-format will just force smart clients I really think the <nl> thing was "broken". I also think "<<" is more readable than "<lt>". I also think that many near-useless features in richtext were removed. 5) text/enriched does a poorer job of meeting it's first and primary I don't think this proves it, but it's one bit of evidence in that direction. Removing verbatim would certainly remove this objection as well, though, wouldn't it? 6) The <nl> in text/richtext is an obviously unambiguous linebreak. Come on, counting newlines is not really all that hard..... 7) The automatic linebreak caused by the formatting commands (e.g. I think that a major motivation here is clarity. Nobody really knew the "right" thing to do with something like this in richtext: <center>hello</center><flushright>goodbye</flushright> At least in enriched, everybody should be treating it the same, i.e. putting hello & goodbye on separate lines.... I think that on balance text/enriched is a big improvement over text/richtext, but I'm not willing to stand up and be the sole person arguing for retaining verbatim, so I'm open to removing it if that seems to be the net consensus. Is there anyone out there who wants to argue for retaining verbatim? -- Nathaniel
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