Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:30:39
Message-Id: 20081221232512.5883352a@bellgrove.remarqs.net
1 On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:05:58 -0600
2 Steven Susbauer <stupendoussteve@×××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > Some mail readers convert *asterisks* as bold statements. I believe it
5 > is the generally accepted way to make a section stand out when dealing
6 > with plain text.
7
8 Yes. The other two kinds of conventional pseudo-markup are /slashes/
9 for italics and _underscores_ for underlining. Even with clients that
10 don't use them to change rendering, they're easy to pick up by eye when
11 reading the plain text.
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14 »Q«
15 Kleeneness is next to Gödelness.