On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 08:25:54PM +0000, Rob Church wrote:
On 12/02/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
Only a vanishingly tiny percentage of our target audience (which is all of humanity) is familiar with Usenet-style emphasis conventions.
It's bloody criminal, isn't it?
I know you're being at least 50% snarky there, Rob, but I a) think that it is, in fact, criminal, and b) still don't think that penalizing the people who do is a good idea, absent overwhelming other evidence.
And let's just note here that *Microsoft Word does this translation in realtime during input*, assuming you don't turn it off.
So, clearly, it's not *that* abstruse.
Cheers, -- jra