Re: Removed forward slash?

[Thomas Lofgren <lofgren@sics.se>]

>>>>> "HN" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

    HN> 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.

    HN> I suspect that it might be the case that Harry's Emacs does
    HN> not render italics correctly, for whatever reason.  In that
    HN> case, italicizing will really look like "removing slashes",
    HN> which is quite disconcerting.

I quite often find myself working on a tty, and unable to see italics
and bold any different from regular text.  The default Gnus behavior
is very impractical for this purpose.  I know it can be toggled off,
but it strikes me as strange that the default behavior is to interpret
the content as if it was something other than plain text.  Sure, it's
nice to have the bold and italics at times, but I don't think we have
to lower ourselves to the general software industry where appearance
is more important than functionality.  Let the users toggle it on if
they want it.

At the very least, there should be a check if we're on a tty, and
toggled off if that is the case.  That's really not enough, though, as
some people (for whatever reason) use fonts that can't be italicized
even under X.

Tom
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