Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dee Earley Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion Subject: Re: [OT] Bolding text. Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:44:38 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: rjApkXnSOjrT83QpZ8fKqg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.basic.visual.misc:198 On 23/05/2011 17:00, Helmut_Meukel wrote: > Helmut_Meukel tried this : >> Jim Mack formulierte Montag : >>> Dee Earley wrote: >>>> On 22/05/2011 23:29, GS wrote: >>>>> BTW >>>>> How were you able to boldface in your post? >>>> >>>> Some clients treat *asterisks* as bold markers. >>>> Some also honour _underscores_ for underlining. >>> >>> And those often also respect /slashes/ for /italics/ >> >> Problems may arise if if the bold, underscored or italic text is >> abbreviated as in /lat./ vs. /latin/. >> > > My newsreader didn't interpret the slash after the dot of lat. as > end of italics and diplayed it instead; and then - because it displayed > still italics - displayed the slash before latin, too. > (I use MesNews). How did other Newsreaders? Thunderbird (3.1.10) handled it fine. -- Dee Earley (dee.earley@icode.co.uk) i-Catcher Development Team http://www.icode.co.uk/icatcher/ iCode Systems (Replies direct to my email address will be ignored. Please reply to the group.)