Trane Francks wrote: > On 3/13/14 12:00 AM +0900, WaltS wrote: >> On 03/12/2014 09:53 AM, Trane Francks wrote: >>> On 3/12/14 10:28 PM +0900, Daniel wrote: >>>> On 12/03/14 23:03, Trane Francks wrote: >>>>> On 3/12/14 8:46 PM +0900, Daniel wrote: >>>>>> On 12/03/14 20:30, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >>>>>>> Daniel wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> If you wish to apply the effect (Bold, Underline and Italics) to >>>>>>>>> the odd >>>>>>>>> word or to a few words in individual *Text* e-mails, you can use >>>>>>>>> *asterics for bold* , _Underscores for underlining_ and /Slants for >>>>>>>>> Italics/ . >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hmm! I wonder why the /Italics/ didn't work?? Must be wrong symbol!! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Your slashes had the desired effect here. So did the asterisks and >>>>>>> underscores. I've noticed their failures when either of the adjacent >>>>>>> characters is not a letter, found it mildly annoying but not a big >>>>>>> enough issue to spend time on it. Dunno how they look in other >>>>>>> programs. >>>>>> >>>>>> Paul, in my own message that I was replying to above, (in the bit >>>>>> that I >>>>>> deleted) I also mentioned about the adjacent character had to be a >>>>>> letter for the effect to work .... but, it would seem, slants have a >>>>>> further problem as /Slants for Italics/ doesn't come out in Italics but >>>>>> /Italics/ did!! >>>>>> >>>>> Interestingly, your /Slants for Italics/ worked fine in that last >>>>> message, Daniel. >>>> >>>> but what did I do right *this time* ?? Bloody Computers!! >>>> >>> Apparently, you kept all the formatting on the same line. >>> >>> /This works./ /This does >>> not./ >>> >>> Cheers. >>> >> >> >> Must have a bug in my Thunderbird. Neither of those work when viewing >> /in Thunderbird/. >> > Interesting. It didn't work when displayed here, either. It seems that > multiple, side-by-side formatting in SeaMonkey doesn't work, either. >
/This works/ /This does not./ /This does not either/ No special characters allowed like punctuation or returns/linefeed? Dennis _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
