From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31029 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Shutko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Improved (non-annoying) underlining Date: 17 May 2000 10:27:47 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <200005171355.PAA11908@marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167487 11736 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:31:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:31:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B5DD0520 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 10:46:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAB08957; Wed, 17 May 2000 09:46:22 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 17 May 2000 09:45:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA28896 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 09:45:38 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from bkupmail.cv.net (bkupmail.cv.net [167.206.112.44]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52928D0520 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 10:45:58 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from s1.optonline.net (s1.optonline.net [167.206.112.6]) by bkupmail.cv.net (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA28874 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 10:48:13 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from hunt108-151.optonline.net (hunt108-151.optonline.net [167.206.108.151]) by s1.optonline.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA14324 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 10:45:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from ats@localhost) by hunt108-151.optonline.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA02697; Wed, 17 May 2000 10:45:52 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: rita.springies.com: ats set sender to ats@acm.org using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody In-Reply-To: Karl Kleinpaste's message of "17 May 2000 10:03:43 -0400" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.6 Original-Lines: 21 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31029 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31029 Karl Kleinpaste writes: > What would be meant by "boldface space character"? A space is the > absence of any glyph in that character position. How would one make > it "boldface" when the property of boldface means that the glyph is > "thicker" ? There is no glyph to change. It should be a thicker absence. > Similarly, for consistency, what would an italicized space be? A slanted absence. I'm not sure about smallcaps spaces, though. > I'm confused. (I think it was a joke.) -- Alan Shutko - In a variety of flavors! 178 days, 1 hours, 8 minutes, 10 seconds till we run away. To love is good, love being difficult.