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From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm 2.2 miscellany
Message-ID: <970@pkmab.se>
Date: 21 Apr 89 16:43:13 GMT
References: <5191@nis.mn.org> <5192@nis.mn.org> <5006@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> <645@maxim.ERBE.SE>
Organization: Peridot Konsult i Mellansverige AB, Oerebro, Sweden
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In article <645@maxim.ERBE.SE> prc@maxim.ERBE.SE (Robert Claeson) writes:
>In article <5205@nis.mn.org>, rjg@nis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) writes:
>
>> 	1) Return it to the way it was.  Brackets, no period.
>> 	2) Remove the brackets, retain the punctuation.
>> 	3) Completely change the entire visual aspects of Elm.
>> 	4) Do nothing.
>
>I like number two. In most 7-bit national character sets (as defined in
>ISO 646), the brackets simply aren't there. Instead, other national
>characters has taken their place (most European alphapbets has more
>characters than the 25 characters used in the english alphabet). So
>I really don't like it when ELM outputs something like AELM 2.2PL0Z.
>Substitute your favourite alpha characters for A and Z. THAT's real
>unaesthetic.

Before compiling Elm I always change [...] to (...) to solve that. I
would not like the brackets to be completely removed.

On the other hand, I do find the use of periods in single-sentence
bracketed messages unnecessary. The brackets are enough to delimit the
message; no period needed. But I don't find the periods very upsetting
either.

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