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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.

Hrvoje has hit another point I failed to include.  I keep italic
display off, because Italics look terrible in the fonts I have. Never
did like Italics.  Never noticed the business of disappearing slashes
until yesterday.