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

From:Sai Emrys <sai@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 1:54
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>
wrote:

> When you *view* an email with an asterisked word, does it show up as bold > (and not show the asterisks at all)? >
No, that showed as asterisks. I think it just treats bold as rich-text copy, and hides the asterisks from me per standard markup, but that they result as *s when sent through a plaintext filter like the listserv. I agree that it's a misfeature in this case at least, but in the general case of pasting in bold text to a plaintext email, I think it may actually be the correct behavior. FWIW I can easily frob it to go into plain text mode, but I just don't usually bother to. (Though I very rarely, if ever, use markup in emails; I'm used to treating them as essentially plain text formats. Perhaps this is just my own fault then? :-P) Also FWIW, I use asterisks and bold differently, in situations (such as ZBB or my LJ blog) where I have the option to use either - asterisks are not the same kind of emphasis as italic, bold, or underscore. They're semi equivalent to a strong verbal stress, whereas bold is equivalent to a ??moderate one. Italics, caps, and underscore I use almost exclusively for syntactic / formatting reasons (titles, loanwords, book names, headings, etc). But again, I don't think that's a very lucid explanation of how I use 'em differentially; I just know that I *do*... ;-) - Sai