On 8/21/2007, Arfa Daily posted this:
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"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message
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On 8/17/2007, Arfa Daily posted this:
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On 8/17/2007, Gene E. Bloch posted this:
On 8/17/2007, Smitty Two posted this:
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kony wrote:


Capitalization is also used in text for emphasis, not just
shouting.

More commonly, on usenet, leading and trailing asterisks indicate what
would be italicized for emphasis.

Although my newsreader displays *word* in bold and /word/ in italics
(if I let it).


Hmmm - I've never tried both, like this:
/*word*/ (looks like a comment to me!)
*/word/*

I'll look at them when the message up shows in the NG...

Both are in bold + italic here.

Well, to be 100% accurate, the first is in italic + bold :-)

BTW, the reason I had to wait until I could read it in the NG is that
this reader (MesNews) displays bold, italic, and smileys as straight
text in the composition window.


So I guess that's why the common convention is to use slashes and
asterisks. I never knew that some newsreaders actually interpreted these
as such. Learn something new every day ! So that does leave
capitalization free for 'shouting' ... d;~}

Arfa

:-)

You could always put in metacommands, like below:
SHOUT
...
/SHOUT

I noticed in configuring something on the Mac a couple of days ago (I
forget what, sorry) that stars can bracket bold words and underscores can
bracket italics in that app. I think this newsreader displays _word_ as an
underscored word, but I won't know until I read it as an incoming article,
as before.

I knew about stars for emphasis, but I didn't know about displaying it as
bold type until I started using MesNews a couple of years ago.

-- Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
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Just goes to show how many years you can use something for, and still not
know all about it. The underlining thing is yet another one to add to my
knowledgebase. So I wonder if you can both bracket and slash either side to
ensure that it will get read as italics in either variety of reader. And
then again, can you add stars as well for bold and italics ?

Arfa


Senior moment. That should of course, have read "underscore and slash". I
hate getting old ...

Arfa

Just to make you feel younger:

*/_test phrase_/*

For some reason, I felt I had to do LIFO on the markers :-)

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Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
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