From: Nicola L. <ni...@te...> - 2003-02-04 14:22:52
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[Individual Cc:s removed] > In that context, > common use is *bold*, /italic/, and _underlined_. Indeed, if you use > Gnus as a newsreader, it can be set to display like that by default. In fact, Mozilla displays those accordingly, too. Never saw the italic "markup" before, but it works. > As you say, it's a relatively arbitrary distinction, but years of > reading the "naive" form leaves me used to "seeing" asterisks as bold > text, when reading the raw version. I agree. I was rather startled, when first studying reST, to see the markup adopted for emphasis (italics) and strong (bold). -- "A true conversation is a creative force -- you could almost say, *the* creative force -- by which new things come into the world." Steve Talbott, NetFuture Nicola Larosa - ni...@te... |