On 2021-06-13 at 17:30, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-06-13 4:50 p.m., The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2021-06-13 at 16:42, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >> >>> How do you make the text bold ? The * is enough ? >> >> You don't. How the text is rendered depends entirely on the mail >> client the person is using, and potentially on the configuration of >> that client. > > I didn't have in mind that message client could render some > derivative of Markdown.
If I'm not mistaken, if anything it's actually more of an ancestor; I first heard of Markdown well after this was already long-established. > But, now I know ;-) > > Regarding the asterisks, I used them in many text to make emphasis, > including in some text that go out in printed form. Started doing so > when I was still in university and transcribing my notes after the > day. Certainly better than the current apparent trend of using quotation marks to do so... -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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