On 26 Feb 2026, at 11:11, Martin S Taylor wrote:
I certainly don’t. Can you point to somewhere which explains it?
Not sure if I'm pitching this right so taking the question very much at
face value, forgive me if I email-splain.
The headline version is that most emailers will work with 'styled' text
ie bold, headings, and so on. This is usually done using html, so you're
looking at something that is a bit (but not entirely) like a webpage
when you look at an email.
Most emailers that do styled (or 'rich' as it's usually called) text do
it with WYSIWYG – you select text and make it bold, and so on.
Mailmate simply uses markdown (plain text with simple mark-up) which is
converted to html for other emailers to read.
Markdown *is* plain text (eg using asterisks to indicate italics) but
typically is read as a kind of rich text (making things look italic
rather than simply rendering \* italics \* (without the spaces). (One
could argue that html, which can be read by a plain text editor, is also
ultimately plain text but that would not be particularly helpful here.)
Everything I've said there is roughly correct but there are many
specific cases in which footnotes could legitimately be added for
exceptions or clarifications.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Jason
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