Hello Andre! On Saturday, September 04, 2004, 8:29 AM, you wrote:
MB>> :grin: Okay. < > 4 * * 1 MB>> But, Andre, I use *asterisks* to indicate emphasis, AW> I don't. And for exactly for that reason. If I need to show AW> emphasis which is seldom enough i use underscores. Well, I think I had noticed that. Nobody, however, ever actually told me to use asterisks. Long before I was so lucky as to encounter you on the lists, I noticed that the people I was coming to respect most did enclose a word in asterisks to indicate emphasis. When I joined these lists, and a short 5 months earlier, some of the Rootsweb lists in 2002, my one experience with mailing lists had been with the International Horn Society's discussion group (musicians who play the French horn). Entirely different preferences and styles prevailed there. AW> I realize I'm not coming from where almost everyone else on these AW> lists is coming from. < > looks alien to me. Even though I see AW> them here quite often I'm still not used to it. I'm used to use * AW> * in those cases. You will find me write *g* occasingly but never AW> <g> Truly it's all in what one's used to, but I do try to notice what most people are doing and to fit in. Well, that's when it's a group to which I wish to belong--like this one. AW> I'm not sure why that is. I have a theory about mirc using AW> asterics for "actions" but I don't know. It's in irc where I AW> learned these things. I don't know what "mirc" and "irc" are. AW> If someday tb supports these symbols for bold, underlined etc text AW> so be it. I will grin boldly then. Do you mean "interprets" in the text View Folder window a "bold" or "italic" font, as the case may be? AW> I was teasing you when I refused to subscribe to one of your two AW> options, true enough. But there was still my honest opinion in AW> there as well. I was so focused on the fact that I wanted to please Roelof and others who complained about colon enclosures, if I could, that I totally lost my sense of humor for the moment. Even though I saw your teasing symbol. But even after your intent was pointed out to me earlier in this thread, I did think you were also making a serious point. I enjoy the Smileys myself. They are a part of The Bat!, and I don't think I should have to give up using them just because others do not prefer them. Mostly I think people will gain the habit of ignoring them in their PTV, whatever the enclosure is. And for PCWSmiley Smileys, that enclosure will be colons. In the same way, when I first began reading these lists, the occasional poster whose style is not to write a capital "I," but rather to type "i," would really bring me up short. It's still not standard written English. But on the lists my eyes simply breeze right over it and my brain stays focused on the meaning. MB>> so that I don't shout with capitals. AW> But you should shout with capitals. That's what they're there for. In the "real" world, they're more often used to indicate extreme emphasis. On the lists, they make people think you are "yelling"--with "yelling" used in its pejorative sense of "attacking." AW> Of course, better not to shout at all. Yes. Careful choice of ideas and words and word order to express those ideas is the better course. :) MB>> (Because one of the few lacks in the MicroEd and its accompanying MB>> View configurations, is a way to show bold or italic fonts for this MB>> kind of emphasis.) AW> tb! doesn't offer this at all for non html mail. Understood. And it's very low on my preference priorities to have it. MB>> Anyway, it's really nice to hear from you. AW> Nice of you to say that. Andre, I find you always timely and thoughtful in your comments. -- Best regards, Mary The Bat! 3.0 on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.00.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
