Text Effects?

[Kishore]

On Sunday 09 Nov 2008 9:03:44 pm Jerry Houston wrote:
> Thanks to those of you who have answered questions for me during my switch
> from Thunderbird to KMail.  I'm wondering now about a feature that may be
> present, but if it is, apparently I don't have it turned on.
>
> 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.
>
> So far, Kmail seems not to interpret these characters in any way, but it
> may be because of a default setup choice.
>
> As KMail does most things much better than Thunderbird (IMHO), I suspect
> there's an option somewhere to enable these effects.  Am I right?

I don't think this is possible in the release versions of kmail but i was 
pleasantly surprised to see that kmail built from svn *can* do this. I have 
not explored this in detail. From your mail above I can see that *bold* and 
_underscore_ are not marked but /italics/ is marked. I suspect this is because 
of the comma that follows those words as i have seen it work in other mails 
but ill know for sure when I see this mail return to my inbox.

In any case, you can expect this feature to show in 4.2 release. Oh and by the 
way, the new list view is pretty awesome! ;)
-- 
Cheers!
Kishore
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