Text Effects?

Matthew Woehlke mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Nov 11 00:16:07 GMT 2008


Jerry Houston wrote:
> Other email clients are able to translate the conventional *bold*, 
> _underscore_, and /Italic/ text modifiers into those effects in the reading 
> pane.
> 
> Thunderbird dos this, although not well.  (It leaves the format characters in 
> place, which is distracting.)  Outlook Express, with the OEQuoteFix add-on, 
> does this very well, applying the effect to the enclosed text and removing the 
> format characters.

Well, until there is a system that can tell the difference between 
/italic/ and /some/path/to/a/file (or better, *bold* and "$ find 
'*glob*'") with 100% reliability, I'd as soon it *didn't* remove the 
marks :-).

-- 
Matthew
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-- 
We are Microsoft. What you are experiencing is not a problem; it is an 
undocumented feature. -- Unknown (from fortune's bofh-excuses)

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