Posted by Ian Gregory on 11/16/06 11:36

On 2006-01-04, Justin <nospam@insightbb.com> wrote:
> Ian Gregory wrote on [4 Jan 2006 21:35:40 GMT]:
>> On 2006-01-04, Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>>
>>> different newsgroups maybe? Of course, if someone uses slashes and
>>> someone else uses underscores, it's to bring attention to what's between
>>> them; however, we really don't know what the poster had meant by them,
>>> do we--and does it really matter whether I emphasize with /slashes/,
>>> with _underscores_, or with *asterisks*? You know that it's for
>>> emphasis.
>>
>> Well reading your post in slrn (text mode newsreader) the word
>> "slashes" in the above paragraph appears as normal text, the
>> word "underscores" is underlined, and the word "asterisks" is
>> in bold. Since slrn makes a pretty good attempt to do what is
>
> I am also using SLRN, I see the /slashes/ word as highlighted, the
> _underlined_ word as highlighted differently and the *asterisked* word
> as highlighted differently still

Interesting! Check out the empahasised_text_mode variable in the
slrn manual [1]. Here is what it says:

> This variable controls how slrn displays text that has been
> recognized as emphasized. If it is non-zero, the text will
> be highlighted according to the color objects boldtext,
> italicstext and underlinetext. Additionally, there are two
> values which have special meanings: If set to 1, the characters
> which were used for emphasis (`*', `/' and `_', respectively)
> are not printed on the screen; if set to 2, these characters
> are written as spaces. In all other cases (including the default
> value), they will not be changed.

[1]: http://slrn.sourceforge.net/manual/slrn-manual-6.html#ss6.27

Incidentally, my setup is:

Mac OS X 10.3.9
Terminal.app ($TERM=xterm-color)
ssh to Debian 3.1 (2.4.31-grsec)
Slrn 0.9.8.1 [2004-10-07]
S-Lang Library Version: 1.4.9

Ian

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