Posted by Justin on 11/16/18 11:36

Ian Gregory wrote on [4 Jan 2006 22:05:06 GMT]:
> 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

XP Pro
SecureCRT 5.0
ssh to Debian 3.1 (2.2.0 kernel)
Slrn 0.9.8.1 [2004-10-07]
Slang 1.4.9

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