Re: Marmite
- From: Peter Moylan <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:17:56 +1100
Django Cat wrote:
Default User wrote:
In XanaNews, that only works for single words. So _a phrase_ won't
be underlined. Other similar things include bold and italic.
True: *you* *have *to* *put* an _asterisk_ at the start and end of
each word to do a whole pharse, which get /tedious/.
Note that the decision as to whether to render the text as bold (or
italic or underlined) is made at the receiving end, not at the sending
end. You can insert the asterisks wherever you like, but what the
reader sees will depend on what software they're using. *I can make and
entire phrase bold* if I wish, with the aid of only two asterisks, and
many (but not all) readers of this message will see it that way.
Apparently you're among the group whose newsreader has an atypical
understanding of the asterisk convention.
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