From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24340 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Removed forward slash? Date: 17 Jul 1999 09:52:44 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161924 8165 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:58:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:58:44 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA01324 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 12:53:23 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB29029; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 11:53:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 17 Jul 1999 11:54:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA01145 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 11:53:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mail.networkone.net (qmailr@mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA01312 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 12:52:51 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 17174 invoked from network); 17 Jul 1999 16:52:50 -0000 Original-Received: from pm3-4-17.la.networkone.net (HELO satellite.local.lan) (reader@209.144.126.209) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 17 Jul 1999 16:52:50 -0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by satellite.local.lan (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA02745; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 09:52:44 -0700 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Fran=E7ois?= Pinard's message of "17 Jul 1999 11:22:23 -0400" Original-Lines: 42 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24340 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24340 François Pinard writes: > Harry Putnam écrit: > > > However, looking through the material at the node suggested [`Article > > Fontisizing'] I discovered no clue as to which thing should be set to > > "nil" to stop this from happening. "s" searches on "italic" or "forward > > slash" were no more helpful. > > Let me see. The quoted node immediately speaks about `gnus-emphasis-alist', > which you may modify. As it makes it pretty clear that Lars calls > `emphasis' the set of phenomena it describes, you might have searched on > `emphasis' and been more successful... The node also contains a clear > `*Note' pointing to the `Customizing Articles' node, and in that node, > you find the variable `gnus-treat-emphasize', preceded by an explanation > of possible values. Are you sure you were really seeking for clues? :-) Not to belabor the point, but, lets try this again: Following the clues you've given. Article Fonticizing.. regexp there has forward slashes conspicouisly absent. I quickly found the customizing Articles section you point to. Neither the first reference you mentioned nor Customizing Articles, gives any indication that a forward slash is used to "emphasize" anything, let alone italicized text. A full "s" search on `gnus-article-emphasize' give two hits, same holds true for `gnus-emphasis-alist'. None of those hits make reference to forward slash. Now let me ask you if you are sure what you think of as clues are really clues or are only clues if you already know that forward slashes emphasize italicized words. A bit of catch-22 here. > The problem is that we may have /varying/ purposes. For example, in the > previous sentence, I put "varying" between slashes with the purpose that > you will see it italicised. :-) Point well taken.. And remedy at hand .. > be acceptable. In any case, we are free to turn it on or off by changing > the value of `gnus-treat-emphasize', if the default does not suit us.