Re: [OT] Re: Asking if elements in struct arre zero

From: Keith Thompson (kst+u_at_mib.org)
Date: 11/10/03 

Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 21:41:23 GMT

Mark Gordon <spamtrap@flash-gordon.me.uk> writes:
[...]
> I've used at least one news reader which *did* apply *bold*, /italic/,
> _underline_ and possibly other mark ups and did a good job of it. So
> people who want such things have the option of choosing a news reader
> that supports them *without* causing problems people who do not want
> them.

As it happens, the newsreader I'm currently using (Gnus v5.9.0) does
use boldface for *bold* and underlining for _underlining_. I think it
tries to use italics for /italics/, but my terminal emulator doesn't
support italics.

I wouldn't mind if it also showed me the '*', '_', and '/' characters.
It probably causes problems for things like __STDC__ (I'll see when
this article shows up). It is, of course, infinitely configurable,
but I haven't bothered to figure it out yet.

In a non-Usenet context, I've seen software that displays "8)" as a
smiley, which is annoying when someone happens to want to use that
sequence of characters. Even if it's meant to be a smiley, I'd rather
see the '8' and the ')'. 

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