Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bold, italics, underscore convention (Was: Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug.)

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Willie Wong ha scritto:
> Starting a new thread because this is getting way off topic (both
> re: gentoo or re: the topic under discussion in the other thread)
>
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:25:12PM -0600, Penguin Lover ??Q?? squawked:
>> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:05:58 -0600
>> Steven Susbauer <stupendoussteve@×××××××.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Some mail readers convert *asterisks* as bold statements. I believe it
>>> is the generally accepted way to make a section stand out when dealing
>>> with plain text.
>> Yes.  The other two kinds of conventional pseudo-markup are /slashes/
>> for italics and _underscores_ for underlining.  Even with clients that
>> don't use them to change rendering, they're easy to pick up by eye when
>> reading the plain text.
>>
>
> Okay, my tongue was firmly in my cheek in the hypothetical question I
> just posted in the old thread. But now seriously: is there anyway of
> telling the recipient client to NOT change rendering, other than telling
> the recipient to turn off rendering changes in the mail client? I feel
> that this is a more legitimate question because it is quite possible
> that the answer to some question posted on a linux mailing list
> invoves a one-line sed command, or even a directory listing. Is it
> possible to tell clients which change rendering that, yes, I really
> mean /root/.rev* and not <em>root</em>.rev* ?

My client -Thunderbird- solves it quite elegantly. It keeps the
rendering characters AND renders.

That is, *something* is rendered as [bold]*something*[/bold] and not as
[bold]something[/bold].

So when there is some /directory-path/ stuff I see it funnily in italic
but I also see the slashes, and everyone's happy.

Don't know about other mail readers, but it seems such an obvious
solution that I'd be amazed if Thunderbird hasn't just copied it from
other clients.

m.