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  • fixed-length FROM fido2telebot, how?

    From August Abolins@2:460/256 to Brother Rabbit on Sun May 9 22:59:09 2021
    Hi Brother,
    ...Greets from my Telegram app!


    Hello @BroRabbit,

    At another time you wrote:

    "you can be completely free to set formatting here, bold, italic, underline, and it will be correctly displayed on the Fido side."

    Is there a way to command the bot to recognize text that ought to be fixed-length ARRIVING from the Fido side? ..or is that an impossible/bad idea?

    The bookended use of * _ and / have been well adopted for:

    Bold = *bold*
    Underline = _underline_
    Italic = /italic/

    Perhaps you can invent a control symbol for fixed-length?

    Suggestion, the "=" could work.

    eg:

    Fixed-length = =fixed-length=

    Ciao!
    /|ug (https://t.me/aabolins)

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  • From Brother Rabbit@2:460/58.10 to August Abolins on Mon May 10 10:02:58 2021
    Hi, August!

    09 ��� 21 22:59, August Abolins -> Brother Rabbit:

    Is there a way to command the bot to recognize text that ought to be fixed-length ARRIVING from the Fido side?

    Do you mean monospaced font?

    ..or is that an impossible/bad idea?

    I have already experimented with this in the direction Fido->Telegram. It turned out not pretty, if you remember.

    The bookended use of * _ and / have been well adopted for:

    Bold = *bold*
    Underline = _underline_
    Italic = /italic/

    I haven't implemented it yet in the direction Fido->Telegram. For single words this is not difficult, and for large chunks of text there can be false positives.

    Perhaps you can invent a control symbol for fixed-length?

    Suggestion, the "=" could work.

    eg:

    Fixed-length = =fixed-length=

    I've tried it already. From the outside Telegram looks terribly.

    Have nice nights.
    Brother Rabbit.

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  • From August Abolins@1:396/45.29 to Brother Rabbit on Mon May 10 08:34:00 2021
    Hello Brother Rabbit!

    ** On Monday 10.05.21 - 10:02, you wrote to me:

    Is there a way to command the bot to recognize text that
    ought to be fixed-length ARRIVING from the Fido side?

    Do you mean monospaced font?

    =Yes!= ;)


    ..or is that an impossible/bad idea?

    I have already experimented with this in the direction
    Fido->Telegram. It turned out not pretty, if you remember.

    I don't remember seeing results specific to that, but I can
    imagine the challenges it would pose when the body of a message
    contains the odd = here and there and not knowing whether it's
    for decoration, spacing, or formatting.

    I haven't implemented it yet in the direction
    Fido->Telegram. For single words this is not difficult,
    and for large chunks of text there can be false positives.

    Maybe the parsing function can be limited to work on the first
    few lines of an incoming message only with the idea that it
    would be intented for a header or title.

    There are probably more important things to do (like
    documenting the tgBBS) before adding new things! :D

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