news.software.readers

On 2007-11-06, Brian M. Scott wrote:

>> I don't know what "hypothesis" you're referring to (nor
>> why you've put the word in phoneme slants), [...]
>
> We've been through this before. One common Usenet
> convention is that _underscores_ indicate underlined text,
> /slants/ indicate italics, and *asterisks* indicate boldface
> text.

Right.

/misc/ #shouting


> Some newsreaders, including mine, can be configured
> to honor these conventions: when I read Martin's original
> post, I see the word 'hypothesis' in italics between slants.

I see your three examples highlighted in different colours, but slrn
prints the * / and _ as well.


> For obvious reasons the convention isn't much used in
> .

Just the / convention, but the other two are OK?

(That seems to be the case in Perl newsgroups, because patterns are
usually bracketed with slashes.)


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