On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:55:13PM -0600, Jim Wilson wrote:
Woohoo. :-)
Thanks - I'm glad you approve!
FWIW, the customary rendering (IME) is _italics_, since handwritten underlining is usually rendered as italics in typesetting, and most computer displays have, traditionally, not had a good way to render underlining...
Dang. When I asked everybody on the IRC channel, they told me it was *bold*, _underline_, and /italics/
The change is trivial to make in the code - I just need to know what the "accepted format" is - I've never used Usenet.
One of the reasons the mainline isn't interested in this is, I suspect, precisely that it's not well defined. The communities I hang out in (and I was on Usenet since 1984 or so, back when I could still read The Entire Feed) tended to stick to *bold* and _whatever_; I didn't see /these sort of italics/ much, partially because it conflicts with search string notation, I suspect.
I don't think there's A Standard, myself.
Since it's an extension, and the mainline is unlikely to load it, could you make it an install-time configurable option whether _this_ renders as italics or underscore?
Cheers, -- jra