AAHH..I remember those days. No italics, bold was either all upper case
or you backed up and retyped it about 3 more times. And God help you if
you made a mistake while making three copies with carbon paper. :-)
-p
On 2/24/2011 1:05 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
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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