On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:26:39 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
>
>You're not the only one. I have found that _one_ underscore before
>and after a word displays as underline on many (most? all?)
>mail clients. So I use that underline as an emphasis while still
>eschewing sending HTML email.
>
There's too much DWIM in that convention (is it possibly in an RFC?)
For example, identifiers in Rexx, C, ... with embedded underscores
(no apologies to John G.) may appear as underscoring part of the name.
The convention extends to:
_word_: Underscore word
*word*: Boldface word
/word/: Italicize word.
I hate it when such busybody mailers corrupt my UNIX path names
by (partly) italicizing them and omitting the underscores.
Even as I hated it when M$ Outlook would misinterpret numeric
parameters in example JCL parameters as Q-P and corrupt them.
-- gil
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