On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:39:08 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time) Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:16:28 +1000 (E. Australia Standard Time) > Mark Livingstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ML> I think there probably isn't a defined standard, it's just used > like > ML> smileys etc. > > I just found that Mahogany is definitely correct because it > behaves in the > same way as Microsoft Word! ;-) Indeed, try to activate "replace If MS says that is the way it is a sure thing it is wrongly interpreted standard ;-) > *bold* and > _italic_ with real formatting" option in the "Auto correct" dialog > -- it does what it says it does. > > Also, Wiki rules say that underscore is used for italics: > > > http://pangopdf.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/TextFormattingRule > s as does this (old) text: > > > http://www.macefficiency.com/me101/1999/47_emailFeeling.html > > > Finally, this URL > > http://www.prefab.com/ssl/notagsmarkup.html > > says that underscore is used for emphasizing but then goes on to > say that > in typography underlining and italics are synonyms... I didn't find those specific ones. I guess for me it just seems more natural to use a forward slash which looks like an italic letter and the underline which looks like underline. Maybe some users can give their opinions? Granted, 95% of the time I use *bold* only anyway. > So the conclusion is clear: this should be configurable via a > dialog > mapping characters to the styles. It doesn't mean I'm going to do > it any > time soon however... We have consensus on asterisk for *bold* at least then :-) Dr. QA ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-users
