Any way to configure TB to font-ize *bold*, _underline_, and /italic/ delimited text in posts?
VanguardLH
bold, underlining, and italics in plain-text newsgroup posts is to
enclose the word or string within asterisks, underscores, or slashes,
as in:
One *bold* word and *a bolded string* in this line.
One _underlined_ word and an _underlined string_ in a line.
One /italicized/ word and an /italicized string/ in a line.
Some NNTP clients, although you are reading in plain-text mode, will
still render the display of that plain text with the indicated style.
Anyway to make TB do this, too?
Jan Steffen
TB does that by default. The strings above show up formatted in my TB.
Perhaps you (or an Add-on) turned it off.
It can be disabled in your userContent.css file:
.moz-txt-star {font-weight: normal;}
.moz-txt-underscore {text-decoration: none !important;}
.moz-txt-slash {font-style: normal;}
I think there is also a way to turn that off via userpref but I don't
know the code right now.
HTH, Jan
VanguardLH
Well, something changed and now even when I read my own post and your
reply which quoted my post the bolding, italics, and underlining show
up. I did just installed the mnenhy add-on which allowed me to
configure the preferences for the new account's folder to display in
plain-text mode (while letting me keep html display mode for my email
folders). Maybe that kicked it in the butt by changing the display
mode (the "View -> Message Body As" menu). When I select that menu
when an email folder is selected, it is now "Original HTML" (like it
was at the start). When I use the same menu when a news account is
selected, it is "Plain Text". So probably changing the view
(preferences) on the news account to plain-text mode got TB's
rendition of the text-only e-mail to show the styles indicated by the
asterisk, underscore, and slash.
However, it would be nice if those formatting delimiters did not also
display with the formatted text. When reading a post, I see the
bolded word but I also see the asterisks on each side of the word.
Unfortunately, when replying to a post that has those formatting
characters, the words are no longer formatted. That is, the
formatting shown in the message pane is not shown in the new-mail
compose window. Oh well, at least I got the formatting to show up
when reading the posts although a bit messy with the formatting
characters still there.
G. R. Woodring
You can hide the display of the characters with userContrent.css within the
chrome folder in your profile. The lines enclosed within /* */ are comments,
they are not needed but help, especially if you create a large userContent.css file.
This will remove the asterisks, slashes and underscores from view.
/*
* Remove the *,/,_ characters for bold, italic,
* and underline from text email and newsgroup posts
*/
.moz-txt-star > .moz-txt-tag { display: none; }
.moz-txt-slash > .moz-txt-tag { display: none; }
.moz-txt-underscore > .moz-txt-tag { display: none; }
This will do the same but also hides the signature delimiter.
/*
* No Tags for Structured Words
* (also removes the Sig delimiter)
*/
.moz-txt-tag { display: none }
If you are not familiar with userChrome.css just ask and I or someone else can
explain in greater detail.
--
G. R. Woodring
Blinky the Shark
http://blinkynet.net/stuff/comp/quotecolors.jpg
There's a toggle for showing/hiding the formatting symbols in the
QuoteColors add-on.
--
Blinky
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org
Blinky: http://blinkynet.net
VanguardLH
because none of the downloads as addons.mozilla.org are available. I
can get to the site but trying to download any of the .xpi files
results in a message that the file cannot be retrieved because the
server is unresponsive.
For example, I go to
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2313 to get the
Lightning add-on. I get the web page displayed okay so getting to
addons.mozilla.org is not the problem. When I click on the green
download icon, the download aborts after around 10 seconds with "The
requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found."
Is there an alternate or backup site to get the TB add-ons?
Larry Gusaas
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> Unfortunately any further testing of add-ons to Thunderbird is halted
> because none of the downloads as addons.mozilla.org are available. I
> can get to the site but trying to download any of the .xpi files
> results in a message that the file cannot be retrieved because the
> server is unresponsive.
>
> For example, I go to
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2313 to get the
> Lightning add-on. I get the web page displayed okay so getting to
> addons.mozilla.org is not the problem. When I click on the green
> download icon, the download aborts after around 10 seconds with "The
> requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found."
>
> Is there an alternate or backup site to get the TB add-ons?
It is working for me. Did you Right-click the link and choose "Save Link
As..." per the instructions or did you just click the download icon?
--
Larry I. Gusaas
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Canada
Website: http://larry-gusaas.com
Blinky the Shark
Ken Whiton
*-* In Article v_2dnZWk9K64ai3a...@mozilla.org,
*-* G. R. Woodring wrote
*-* About Re: Any way to configure TB to font-ize *bold*, _underline_,
and /italic/ delimited text in posts?
> On 2/11/2008 9:27 AM, VanguardLH wrote:
[ ... ]
>> However, it would be nice if those formatting delimiters did not
>> also display with the formatted text. When reading a post, I see
>> the bolded word but I also see the asterisks on each side of the
>> word. Unfortunately, when replying to a post that has those
>> formatting characters, the words are no longer formatted. That is,
>> the formatting shown in the message pane is not shown in the
>> new-mail compose window. Oh well, at least I got the formatting to
>> show up when reading the posts although a bit messy with the
>> formatting characters still there.
> You can hide the display of the characters with userContrent.css
> within the chrome folder in your profile. The lines enclosed within
> /* */ are comments, they are not needed but help, especially if you
> create a large userContent.css file.
> This will remove the asterisks, slashes and underscores from view.
> /*
> * Remove the *,/,_ characters for bold, italic,
> * and underline from text email and newsgroup posts
> */
> .moz-txt-star > .moz-txt-tag { display: none; }
> .moz-txt-slash > .moz-txt-tag { display: none; }
> .moz-txt-underscore > .moz-txt-tag { display: none; }
Thanks for that. Like VanguardLH, I too like that look better,
and that code now resides in my userContent.css file.
Ken Whiton
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