Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 16:05:24 -0400
From: Jens Yllman <jens.yllman@mailbox.swipnet.se>
Subject: Re: Formated text!

At 01.58 1997-07-03 -0400, Mikael.Thulin@eu.pnu.com wrote:
>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.

 Hello.

 I've not read the standard word for word. But as I understand it.
Linebreakes does not need to bee converted except in formated text. And
when there is a property you don't understand keep the linebreaks. BTW:
text that should be displayed should be stripped from linebreaks. And as in
HTML I think that one or more whitespace in a row should be trated as a
single space. I don't know what all you other think out there but this is
my opinion.

 Jens Yllman
 (http://www.uniweb.se/~jens/)