[Info-vax] Why are VSI so focused on Sweden ?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at nz.invalid
Tue Oct 29 20:15:52 EDT 2024


On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:36:48 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 10/29/2024 4:42 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 14:15:32 +0000, David Wade wrote:
>>>
>>> [“Reveal codes” is] difficult to do sensibly. Often the codes are
>>> inherited through cascading styles, or by marking blocks of text, so
>>> there isn't a direct mapping between the formatting of the display,
>>> and the embedded charaters..
>> 
>> The only reason WordPerfect needed that feature was because it used
>> embedded formatting codes, which other word processors do not. So they
>> have no “codes” to “reveal”.
> 
> All word processors embed formatting codes.

No they don’t. The more usual data structure is called “style runs”.


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