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Re: formatting doesn't nest

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"J. P. Gilliver" wrote:

> I just wrote some text #like @this@, only# with slashes instead of @ and
> underlines instead of #. Just out of curiosity. The word between slashes
> came back italic, but the outer block - including the italic one -
> _didn't_ come back underlined.
> 
> Not important - I just did it out of curiosity.
> 
> (When I say "came back", I mean when I saw my original text in a
> returned post; I realise it's Thunderbird that interprets it, not usenet.)

Not every email/usenet client displays emphasised characters like that, 
so it's probably best to keep it simple, for the benefit of people 
having to interpret them in their head ...

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formatting doesn't nest "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-10-01 21:32 +0100
  Re: formatting doesn't nest Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-10-01 13:53 -0700
    Re: formatting doesn't nest Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2026-10-01 14:04 -0700
      Re: formatting doesn't nest Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-01 22:25 +0100
        Re: formatting doesn't nest "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-10-01 22:36 +0100
        Re: formatting doesn't nest Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-01 22:40 +0100
        Re: formatting doesn't nest Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-10-02 09:36 +0100
          Re: formatting doesn't nest Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-02 09:41 +0100
            Re: formatting doesn't nest "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2026-10-02 13:14 +0100
  Re: formatting doesn't nest Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-10-02 09:34 +0100

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