Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 01:58:21 -0400
From: Mikael.Thulin@eu.pnu.com (Mikael Thulin)
Subject: Formated text!

Hi again,

First:
Could someone please explain the use of "soft line breaks"?

Then:
The "formatted" text gives me a kind of a headache! In the
earlier versions of the SGF format I could treat "unknown
properties", private properties of an other application or
"known" properties that my application did not handle, all
the same. I read unknown properties as if they were a "list
of simpletext" values and kept them to store in the output
file. If I do that now I will destroy the format information?
e.g. if my program can't handle the ON[text] property and it
contains something like "Hi all,<nl> Is this\<nl>true?". My
current implementation would preserve it as "Hi all  Is this
true?". It looks to me that an application have to know the
"property value type" of an unknown property to be able to
preserve it's value.

What am I missing?

[
  Maybe that I can read and write the unknown property
  value raw and not do the usual white space removal :)
  but then the property could be "ON[at [q4\<nl>]]"
  and I will have a hard time to recover.
]

I know I'm TO late, but it looks to me that formatted text
should be something like:

":h:" = hard line break
":s:" = soft line break

(all other : (colon) have to be escaped)

This would *also* have the benefit that it is easy for
applications that can not handle formatted text (or a
specific format option) to skip and preserve the format
information.

It would also have the benefit to allow "many" new format
tokens in the future.

Errata:
In the "Property index of FF[1] - FF[4]" the ID property
is listed to have "text" values. It should be "simpletext",
or am I wrong again?

Regards,
Mikael Thulin

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