Re: OT: Gmail (was Re: Conlang Flag art links)

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On 2008-05-27 Sai Emrys wrote:
> For me the natural equivalents (motivated just
> orthographically, I guess) are _underscore_,
> /italics/, *bold*, and MY CAPS LOCK IS ON SO I'M
> SHOUTING LIKE AN IDIOT.
I agree about caps being shouting, but to me it
certainly is _italics_ (since underlining is used
in handwriting to simulate italics) and *bold*,
although I have taken to a tendency to use
**bold**, influenced not only by Markdown but also
by my own conventions for marking word forms in
Tolkien's languages:

- _foo_ : (no marking) con-historical form
   attested in Tolkien's writings.
- _*foo_ : con-prehistorical form attested in
   Tolkien's writings.
- _foo*_ : con-historical form not attested in
   Tolkien's writings but reconstructed by
   modern students.
- _*foo*_ : con-prehistorical form not attested
   in Tolkien's writings but reconstructed by
   modern students.

In this context **double asterisks** stand out
better to mark bold, although in combination with
the historicity-attestedness marking system I use
__double underscores__ as is the alternative
method in Markdown, notwithstanding that when
actually **using** Markdown I'd have to write
_\*foo\*_!

What is Markdown you ask? See in Wikipedia!

/BP 8^)>
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