Re: Removed forward slash?

[Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl>]

On 17 Jul 1999 18:44:56 +0200 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> Fran^[-Aç^[-Bois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> > Slashes are routinely used to delimit a word meant to be rendered in
> > italic font, and Gnus removes the slashes while this rendering
> > occurs.
> 
> I suspect that it might be the case that Harry's Emacs does not render
> italics correctly, for whatever reason.  In that case, italicizing
> will really look like "removing slashes", which is quite
> disconcerting.

Indeed! I use a 9x15 font with XEmacs which does not have a corresponding
italics font. Previous XEmacsen picked very ugly replacements for it; I finally
managed to hack it such that italic font properties are ignored.  This looks
better, usuallu, but... only when this thread started did I discover that Gnus
treats forward slashes special as well...

Probably gnus-treat-emphasize should default to nil.

Jaap-Henk

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