21067 - Add prefs for text formatting

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 21649

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

Description

[scalkins]

Saw this on Linux and Mac builds 1999-12-07-08 M12

Steps to reproduce:
1)Launch Seamonkey and login to Mail via Tasks-->Mail
2)Compose a message to yourself, but enclose a few of the words on one line in
asterisks for example:
This is *a simple test* of this case.
3)Send the message, then view it on a seamonkey Mail client.(Or on Netscape 4.7
mail)

Actual results: Text enclosed in asterisks is bolded.

Expected results: Expect same behavior as Netscape 4.7, where everything shows
as normal text.

Notes:
Does not occur to text surrounded by asterisks if there is a hard carriage
return between the asterisks. However, if you type an asterisk, and as you type
more text it wraps to the next line in mail compose,& another asterisk is typed,
all enclosed text will be bolded.
 Putting asterisks around text in Composer does not insert HTML tags for bolding
text. It seems to only be put there by Mail Compose.

Comment 1

[lchiang]

Is this in plain text?  I think this is expected behavior due to bug:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16507

[e-mail] - is there a way to turn this pref off?

Comment 2

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Chaning Summary from "Asterisks around words cause enclosed word to be seen in
BOLD print" to add prefs for text formatting.

Scalkins: It is tradition to emphazies word / pharses with stars. See bug
#16507.

lchiang: thanks for notice.
No, we don't have prefs yet, the callers must add them. I'll take a look at
prefs.

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Scalkins: do you have a case, where you don't want this formatting (I guess so)?

Comment 4

[scalkins]

My concern with it was that if you have an asterisk in two different places of
your text (to denote a "Footnote" maybe?)and the text was wrapped in mail
compose between them, all text between these asterisks may be bolded (Paragraphs
worth maybe). Also Composer does not but these tags there for asterisks around
words,

Comment 5

[scalkins]

To clarify a bit more:  What I meant was, if I type in mail compose the
following sentence:

This is a *very long sentence which runs on and on and wraps and wraps to the
*next line again and again

All the text between the two asterisks in the sentence above are bolded because
of this bug.

Comment 6

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

scalkins,
should not be changed with todays build.

"We're searching for the following pattern:
LT_DELIMITER - "*" - ALPHA -
[ some text (maybe more "*"-pairs) - ALPHA ] "*" - LT_DELIMITER.
<strong> is only inserted, if existance of a pair could be verified
We use the first opening/closing tag, if we can choose"
(<http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/netwerk/streamconv/converters/mozTXTToHTMLConv.cpp#522>)

The scope depends on the caller: the pattern must match for the string passed
to ScanHTML/-TXT.

Comment 7

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21649 ***

Comment 8

[lchiang]

Shouldn't the other bug (which is filed later) be made a duplicate of this one?
:-)

Comment 9

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Lisa, I guess, you know, why it is that way :-).

Comment 10

[lchiang]

verified as duplicate.