On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:42:52 -0500 Willie Wong <ww...@princeton.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:39:30PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:05:58PM -0600, Penguin Lover Steven > Susbauer squawked: > > Some mail readers convert *asterisks* as bold statements. I believe > > it is the generally accepted way to make a section stand out when > > dealing with plain text. > > Ah. Yes, slrn does that also for newsgroups. I've always thought of > that as 'emphasis' and not 'bold', probably because I see it more > often printed with the asterisks then as bold text. So my apologies > that Dale's reference was lost on me. > > However, this begs the question: on such a mail reader, if I write: > > rm -rf *.* > > does it show up just as 'rm -rf <one extra dark dot>'? ;) The mangling of asterisks which aren't meant to be markup is a pretty good reason to turn the feature off, IMO. But slrn honors a way around it ... by introducing more markup, the so-called verbatim marks. I think some other clients now honor them also, though slrn documentation still says it's the only one. <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/slrn-manual-6.html#process_verbatim_marks> -- »Q« Kleeneness is next to Gödelness.
