[About _underline_, *bold* and /italics/]
> YUCK! Rule number one: NEVER use underlined! It's an artifact 
> of typewriters that couldn't write in italics.

Wrong. Rule number one is: _*/NEVER!/*_ (*grin*) use explicit text
formatting.
 
> You could also use TeX-style: Hi, I want a certain word to be 
> \emph{emphasized}!

Taht is *much* better: the author indicates that (s)he wants to
emphasize a certain phrase, but leaves the real formatting (bold,
italic, underline, flashing red, caps, whatever) up to the
person/program doing the layout.

> > or HTML-alike is also possible:
> > <I>this text is italic</I>
> 
> Fair enough.

Nope, not fair enough: <EM>Emphasize</EM> is better :-)

obMSX: Work on AMBeR is in progress. I had some trouble with
  parsing the cmdline in a DOS version independable way...
  (Damn! I also still got Robotz lying around somewhere :-/)

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