FYI - Skip and I have taken this discussion to PM as I feel we're talking on two different wavelengths and I would like to figure out where Skip stands.

I do not like the single quotation marks at all and I will be very pleased if we are able to use the three known text effects (B, I and U) for overviews in DVD Profiler.

Sure a lot of work has gone into adding these (as I see them) strange "ticks". But basically saying we do not want improvement because we are lazy probably isn't the way to go.

Some meassures would probably have to be taken in order to avoid flooding the contribution system though - there are several options, for example automatically accept the first upload where the only change is removing ticks and adding formatting matching the previous ticks.

Add the option to allow displaying the text with formatting, as plain text, or with ticks instead of formatting. Those opposing the change can then set it to use the ticks and simply ignore it completely except for the times where they need to upload new or corrected overviews, but then adding the formatting is probably not the most timeconsuming part anyway.

Quoting Martin_Zuidervliet:

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I do not like the single quotation marks at all and I will be very pleased if we are able to use the three known text effects (B, I and U) for overviews in DVD Profiler.

Fully agree with Martin!

I don't want to check any of you for ticks. Well....maybe a couple.

Skip

Quoting skipnet50:

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Now we are beginning to get into the right territory. The Rules tell us what to do. For thoise users who want to do it some other way, they are free to locally, after all the Online is only the starting place for all of us to build our own customized database, it is not going to be a pre-packaged one size fits ALL database, there are too many of us, with too many different ideas. IF this could be accomodated by a preference setting, which would seems doubtful (at least easily), then that would be great.

Skip

This is the feature request forum not the contribution forum, so obviously the rules need to be adjusted if new features become available (just like it happened with the credited as feature).

With regards to accomodating the mentioned preference setting I wouldn't as much call it easy as extremely easy. Besides the code needed to add the setting to the preference dialog (which would be pretty trivial) I would be surprised if someone spend more than 10 lines of code to implement this.

Quoting Martin_Zuidervliet:

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........I will be very pleased if we are able to use the three known text effects (B, I and U) for overviews in DVD Profiler.

In my local database, I already do this using an HTML "Overview" replacement window so I can get bold & italic text in overviews.  Editing is a bit time consuming as I have to type in all the formatting tags & so I'm only about a third of the way through my DB. Obviously I have to take care not to contribute my versions & I keep those parts of the profile locked to avoid them being overwritten.

But it does look nice!

Yup, that's the bunny! 

I've got a few lines of Style formatting in the HEAD section so the window matches the rest of my layout.