steve harley wrote:
On 2011-02-23 23:17 , Boris Liberman wrote:
On 2/23/2011 10:47 PM, steve harley wrote:
if i were to pick any emailism that irritates me, it would be
top-posting, and after that excessive quoting; but i dance with them --
even sometimes use them myself
What is it "top-posting"?
It's what I do sometimes :-)
Steve continues...
i _am_ using Thunderbird; i had noticed in passing that in Thunderbird
/slashes/ make italics, but only when in the HTML view, and Tbird
sometimes fails to terminate the italics correctly; but i more often
use the plain text view; nonetheless by mentioning this you literally
made me rethink my old-school assumption that the _underscore_ was the
best way to indicate italics in plain text; each has its plusses --
/slashes/ are a better mnemonic for italics, but underlining (kin to
underscores, but can't be done in plain text) was the equivalent to
italics during the reign of the typewriter.
Showing my age ( not that I haven't done that before), during the reign
of the typewriter that I grew up with there were no italics at all.
e.g. -
http://www.willdavis.org/TilmanUnderwoodPort1932Junior611468.jpg
Later - in the early 60's I used an IBM electric typewriter with a ball
head, and you could change typeface by changing the little balls
the type was on. as I recall, we used underlining to indicate what
should be in italics if you were printing something in the newspaper, or
a magazine or a book. And yes, you had to back up and type in the
underlines under the words.
ann
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