Re: Improved (non-annoying) underlining

[Dan McGuirk <mcguirk@incompleteness.net>]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:

> The fact that people expect *this emphasis* to be semantically
> different from *this* *emphasis* is an indication that they've
> forgotten that the concept being transmitted to the reader was
> typographical variation, so the ASCII art has become an end in itself,
> because there's literally no manifestation of this supposed differing
> semantic in any venue other than text/plain emphasizers.

Well, it depends on how you're rendering the emphasis.  When you're
rendering to underlines, there is a difference between underlining an
entire phrase and underlining each word separately.  Gnus currently
displays _this underlined phrase_ the same way as _this_ _underlined_
_phrase_.  I think they should be different, because there is a
difference in meaning here.

Of course, when you're rendering to bold, there can be no visual
difference, which is fine.

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Dan McGuirk    <mcguirk@incompleteness.net>
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