On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:29:42AM -0800, David Starner via Unicode wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 11:53 PM James Kass via Unicode
> wrote:
> > Even though /we/ know how to do
> > it and have software installed to help us do it.
>
> You're emailing from Gmail, which has support for italics in
Kent Karlsson wrote:
> There is already a standardised, "character level" (well, it is from
> a character standard, though a more modern view would be that it is
> a higher level protocol) way of specifying italics (and bold, and
> underline, and more):
>
> \u001b[3mbla bla bla\u001b[0m
>
>
James Kass wrote:
> Even the enthusiasts among us seldom take the trouble to include
> ‘proper’ quotes and apostrophes in e-mails — even for posting to
> specialized lists such as this one where other members might notice
> and appreciate the extra effort involved.
Well, definitely not to this
David Starner wrote,
> You're emailing from Gmail, which has support for italics in email.
But I compose e-mails in BabelPad, which has support for far more than
italics in HTML mail. And I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird to send and
receive text e-mail via the Gmail account.
And if I wanted
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 11:53 PM James Kass via Unicode
wrote:
> Even though /we/ know how to do
> it and have software installed to help us do it.
You're emailing from Gmail, which has support for italics in email.
The world has, in general, solved this problem.
> > How do you envision this
On 2019-01-21, James Kass via Unicode wrote:
> Consider superscript/subscript digits as a similar styling issue. The
> Wikipedia page for Romanization of Chinese includes information about
> the Wade-Giles system’s tone marks, which are superscripted digits.
>
>
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