On 1/22/2017 at 5:16 PM, Ray_Net's prodigious digits fired off with
great aplomb:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote on 22-01-17 20:25:
[email protected] wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
I just wrote:
I see that; it seems to be a recent development. The second line
is especially surprising. Your individual word *bold* works, but
multiple *bold words* apparently no longer do.
Or perhaps it's the inclusion of a sentence terminator that causes
this.
*One* word
*Two words*
*Two. Words* with a period
Saving and opening a draft saves waiting for an email to make the
round trip before seeing the results ;o)
It seems to be having anything other than a-z (even an accented
character) adjacent to the opening or closing asterisk that prevents
the text from being formatted:
*Several words with no numbers*
*Several words ending with a number 1*
*1 number and several words*
*Several words ending with punctuation!*
*Several words ending with an accented á*
*======================================*
It's not a problem having any of those characters in the middle of
the text, just not at the start or end:
*Several words with 1 number in the middle*
*Several words with an accented á in the middle*
*x====================================x*
Not sure what people want to do with that...
Well done!
And now we know it wasn't the OP's fault.
Therefore, it's better to write in HTML ..... plain-text with
_*/bold/italic/underline gadget/*_ IS NOT USABLE !
I understand that old-timers (circa the 80s/early 90s) are hung up on
plain text. But since starting to use corporate email in the 80s the
vast majority of my email experience has been HTML. Virtually no one I
communicate with uses plain text and hasn't in decades. And 99.9% of
commercial email is HTML. I just don't get the aversion to it. I mean,
c'mon, it's frigging 2017, not 1982!
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