On 7/8/05, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Until then, markups are a pain. The passages I've quoted above are > an example. I had the impression the "=" to mark a carriage return was > a peculiar effect of Windows editors, and my emacs re-fill command > treats them as an ordinary character, not a line wrap. This is not > stupidity on emacs' part, for how does a Windows application > distinguish a "=" control character from a plain ASCII character? > Also, the "=3D" hex notation. My browser, when confronted with it does > not interpret it properly as "=", but literally as "=3D". I suspect > this markup is intended solely for Internet Explorer (in order to > promote Billy's monopoly).
That's not markup, it's MIME encapsulation. OK, perhaps you can consider quoted-printable encapsulation as a form of markup, but it's distinctly different than something like XML or HTML. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
