On 6/29/02 9:47 AM, "George Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 6/29/02 12:32, Paul van den Hooven wrote: > >> Just a simple question. In the quoted text I see �_not_� and �_without_�. Can >> someone tell me why there are these underscores? > > They're a "plain-text" method of indicating that the word(s) between the > "_"'s should be taken as being underlined. Or italicized. In fact, I think that when I was writing the HTML actually typed the underscores, which were auto-corrected to italics by the HTML editor. Try it - you'll see. Entourage always sends HTML messages in what's called "multipart/alternative": it includes a plaintext version for email readers that don't read HTML (such as Claris Emailer on the mac or Outlook 97 on Windows). If you're quoting it back in a plain-text reply, Entourage may simply use the plaintext version - which will have included the underscores as I typed them - or perhaps it does the same sort of "translation" back to plain text. I imagine it just uses the plaintext version already in the Source, but i don't really know. If you write some HTML message sing the proper Italics button, send yourself (or this list) a test message, then reply in plaintext, you'll see whether it always converts italics to underscore or whether it was just my own typing that was used in the plaintext reply. -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
