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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Why are VSI so focused on Sweden ?
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 20:42:58 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 14:15:32 +0000, David Wade wrote:

> [“Reveal codes” is] difficult to do sensibly. Often the codes are
> inherited through cascading styles, or by marking blocks of text, so
> there isn't a direct mapping between the formatting of the display, and
> the embedded charaters..

The only reason WordPerfect needed that feature was because it used 
embedded formatting codes, which other word processors do not. So they 
have no “codes” to “reveal”.