From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: asterisks disappear
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 07:56:25 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oei8kl0m.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yotlfz3k1iua.fsf@jpl.org>
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
> I still think it is better to show all text by default. It
> doesn't mean abolishing emphasis but, for example:
>
> * scratch * => *<bold>scratch</bold>*
I understand what you mean. For bold, it's not so bad. But in the case
of underlining, it's _really_ ugly -- underlined+non-hidden text looks
_worse_ than simply doing no processing at all.
[BTW, if you're going to retain the emphasis characters, apply the
emphasis to them too. <bold>*foo*</bold> looks less weird than
*<bold>foo</bold>*.]
> It might look indeed ugly. However, there is likely to be this
> custom (i.e. hiding asterisks) only in Gnus and others don't
> seem to do so.
I don't think it's so important what other clients do, I think it only
matters that what Gnus does (1) `makes sense', and (2) doesn't screw up.
In the case of _underlining_, Gnus' heuristics work very well -- there
seem to be extremely few false matches -- but for *bold*, Emacs buffer
names and common-lisp global-variables provide a source of frequent
false matches.
Since underlining+non-hidden looks _really_ bad, but bold+non-hidden is
not that horrible, I think this means that they deserve independent
defaults.
-Miles
--
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-08 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-05 10:26 Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-05 10:53 ` Reiner Steib
2004-11-05 12:03 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-05 12:16 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-05 13:00 ` Daniel Pittman
2004-11-07 10:58 ` Miles Bader
2004-11-07 14:12 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-07 22:33 ` Miles Bader
2004-11-07 23:14 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-08 11:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-11-08 11:44 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-08 12:39 ` Miles Bader
2004-11-08 15:06 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-08 22:56 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2004-11-09 0:16 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-10 13:12 ` Romain Francoise
2004-11-10 23:23 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-11 14:14 ` Reiner Steib
2004-11-11 15:03 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-09 17:10 ` Jesper Harder
2004-11-08 15:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
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