* Re: Email formatting in gnus
2019-07-23 9:50 Email formatting in gnus Thomas Vauclair
@ 2019-07-23 14:54 ` Adam Sjøgren
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From: Adam Sjøgren @ 2019-07-23 14:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Thomas writes:
> In plain text emails, what is the mechanism in gnus that makes
> _italic_ be displayed in italic and *bold* in bold?
The mechanism is the "wash" called "emphasis".
· Slashes are used to indicate /italics/
· Underscores are used to _underline_
· Asterisks are used to indicate *bold*
> Is it a standard behavior shared by other mail clients or a gnus
> specific one?
It's tradition in plain text formatting.
I think some other clients support it as well; Thunderbird at least
does:
· https://koldfront.dk/pics/thunderbird-emphasis.png
> Is there a list of all the codes that can be used?
I couldn't find one in the manual doing a quick search.
The relevant defcustom is this one, however:
,----[ C-h v gnus-emphasis-alist RET ]
| gnus-emphasis-alist is a variable defined in ‘gnus-art.el’.
| Its value is
| (("\\(\\s-\\|^\\|\\=\\|[-\"]\\|\\s(\\)\\(\\*\\(\\w+\\(\\s-+\\w+\\)*[.,]?\\)\\*\\)\\(\\([-,.;:!?\"]\\|\\s)\\)+\\s-\\|[?!.]\\s-\\|\\s)\\|\\s-\\)" 2 2 gnus-emphasis-bold)
| ("\\(\\s-\\|^\\|\\=\\|[-\"]\\|\\s(\\)\\(_\\(\\w+\\(\\s-+\\w+\\)*[.,]?\\)_\\)\\(\\([-,.;:!?\"]\\|\\s)\\)+\\s-\\|[?!.]\\s-\\|\\s)\\|\\s-\\)" 2 3 gnus-emphasis-underline)
| ("\\(\\s-\\|^\\|\\=\\|[-\"]\\|\\s(\\)\\(/\\(\\w+\\(\\s-+\\w+\\)*[.,]?\\)/\\)\\(\\([-,.;:!?\"]\\|\\s)\\)+\\s-\\|[?!.]\\s-\\|\\s)\\|\\s-\\)" 2 3 gnus-emphasis-italic)
| ("\\(\\s-\\|^\\|\\=\\|[-\"]\\|\\s(\\)\\(_/\\(\\w+\\(\\s-+\\w+\\)*[.,]?\\)/_\\)\\(\\([-,.;:!?\"]\\|\\s)\\)+\\s-\\|[?!.]\\s-\\|\\s)\\|\\s-\\)" 2 3 gnus-emphasis-underline-italic)
| ("\\(\\s-\\|^\\|\\=\\|[-\"]\\|\\s(\\)\\(_\\*\\(\\w+\\(\\s-+\\w+\\)*[.,]?\\)\\*_\\)\\(\\([-,.;:!?\"]\\|\\s)\\)+\\s-\\|[?!.]\\s-\\|\\s)\\|\\s-\\)" 2 3 gnus-emphasis-underline-bold)
| ("\\(\\s-\\|^\\|\\=\\|[-\"]\\|\\s(\\)\\(\\*/\\(\\w+\\(\\s-+\\w+\\)*[.,]?\\)/\\*\\)\\(\\([-,.;:!?\"]\\|\\s)\\)+\\s-\\|[?!.]\\s-\\|\\s)\\|\\s-\\)" 2 3 gnus-emphasis-bold-italic)
| ("\\(\\s-\\|^\\|\\=\\|[-\"]\\|\\s(\\)\\(_\\*/\\(\\w+\\(\\s-+\\w+\\)*[.,]?\\)/\\*_\\)\\(\\([-,.;:!?\"]\\|\\s)\\)+\\s-\\|[?!.]\\s-\\|\\s)\\|\\s-\\)" 2 3 gnus-emphasis-underline-bold-italic)
| ("\\(\\s-\\|^\\)\\(_\\(\\(\\w\\|_[^_]\\)+\\)_\\)\\(\\s-\\|[?!.,;]\\)" 2 3 gnus-emphasis-underline))
|
| Documentation:
| Alist that says how to fontify certain phrases.
| Each item looks like this:
|
| ("_\\(\\w+\\)_" 0 1 'underline)
|
| The first element is a regular expression to be matched. The second
| is a number that says what regular expression grouping used to find
| the entire emphasized word. The third is a number that says what
| regexp grouping should be displayed and highlighted. The fourth
| is the face used for highlighting.
|
| You can customize this variable.
`----
Hope this helps,
Adam
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