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b.n. wrote: |
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> Willie Wong ha scritto: |
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>> Starting a new thread because this is getting way off topic (both |
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>> re: gentoo or re: the topic under discussion in the other thread) |
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>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:25:12PM -0600, Penguin Lover ??Q?? squawked: |
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>>> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:05:58 -0600 |
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>>> Steven Susbauer <stupendoussteve@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> Some mail readers convert *asterisks* as bold statements. I believe it |
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>>>> is the generally accepted way to make a section stand out when dealing |
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>>>> with plain text. |
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>>> Yes. The other two kinds of conventional pseudo-markup are /slashes/ |
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>>> for italics and _underscores_ for underlining. Even with clients that |
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>>> don't use them to change rendering, they're easy to pick up by eye when |
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>>> reading the plain text. |
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>> Okay, my tongue was firmly in my cheek in the hypothetical question I |
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>> just posted in the old thread. But now seriously: is there anyway of |
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>> telling the recipient client to NOT change rendering, other than telling |
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>> the recipient to turn off rendering changes in the mail client? I feel |
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>> that this is a more legitimate question because it is quite possible |
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>> that the answer to some question posted on a linux mailing list |
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>> invoves a one-line sed command, or even a directory listing. Is it |
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>> possible to tell clients which change rendering that, yes, I really |
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>> mean /root/.rev* and not <em>root</em>.rev* ? |
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> My client -Thunderbird- solves it quite elegantly. It keeps the |
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> rendering characters AND renders. |
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> That is, *something* is rendered as [bold]*something*[/bold] and not as |
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> [bold]something[/bold]. |
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> So when there is some /directory-path/ stuff I see it funnily in italic |
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> but I also see the slashes, and everyone's happy. |
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> Don't know about other mail readers, but it seems such an obvious |
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> solution that I'd be amazed if Thunderbird hasn't just copied it from |
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> other clients. |
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> m. |
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I get the same here but couldn't figure out how to explain it. LOL I |
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use Seamonkey as I think I mentioned earlier. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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