On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:09:34 +1000 (E. Australia Standard Time) Mark Livingstone 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

ML> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 10:36:53 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) Alan G Isaac <[EMAIL 
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ML> 
ML> > Is there an established standard for trivial markup?
ML> > I was raised on BOLD, *emphasis*, and _underline_.
ML> > Mahogany supports *bold* and _italic_.

 Yes, this was my understanding of what it meant... I do know that
sometimes people use underscores for underlined text but it's definitely
used for italics as well and I've only seen /this/ a couple of times.

ML> > Mozilla apparently uses *bold*, /italic/, and _underline_.
ML> > I'd think supporters of plain text email would want to
ML> > agree on the semantics of trivial markup.  Short of that,
ML> > I wonder if Mahogany shd mimic Mozilla, which appears to
ML> > follow a de facto standard?
ML> 
ML> M is clearly wrong. An examination of textmarkup.cpp shows it is only
ML> scanning for * and _ and doing bold and italics. That should be bold
ML> and underline. It should also have / added for italics.

 Really not sure... Is there any sort of standard about this? Maybe
use text/enriched conventions (there is an RFC about it at least)?
Does anyone know more about this?

 Thanks,
VZ



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