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EEVblog => News/Suggestions/Help => Topic started by: jhpadjustable on October 18, 2019, 07:49:40 pm

Title: BBcode request: overline
Post by: jhpadjustable on October 18, 2019, 07:49:40 pm

Might it be possible to extend the BBcode to render text with overlines, according to the CSS level 1 attribute:

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text-decoration: overline;

Title: Re: BBcode request: overline
Post by: Brumby on October 19, 2019, 09:25:46 am

I have a question: Why?

Title: Re: BBcode request: overline
Post by: jhpadjustable on November 10, 2019, 08:57:32 am

Quote from: Brumby on October 19, 2019, 09:25:46 am

I have a question: Why?

Active low signal names.

Title: Re: BBcode request: overline
Post by: Brumby on November 12, 2019, 11:57:52 am

OK.  Fair reason.

Not sure how practical that might be.  If it requires customised code change, then don't expect the idea to be taken up.  Those turn into a maintenance nightmare, which we can't expect Dave to have to deal with.

Title: Re: BBcode request: overline
Post by: Ian.M on November 12, 2019, 12:13:15 pm

While overline BBCODE support would be nice to have we can live without it.  There are two common ways of indicating a signal is active low in normal ASCII plaintext.   nSIGNAL or /SIGNAL.   

Its also already possible to resort to Mathjax.

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\$\overline{SIGNAL}\$
gives: \$\overline{SIGNAL}\$.
Unfortunately, that's a mess for anyone with a browser that cant run the Mathjax javascript properly, and also doesn't render till the page is fully loaded, which is problematic for those on slow PCs or slow connections.