From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25065 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emerick Rogul Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: highlighting and fontification Date: 10 Sep 1999 12:32:09 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <37D7F38C.6417009@orgtek.com> 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 1035162520 12130 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:08:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:08:40 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA14095 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:34:14 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB12516; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:34:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:34:37 -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 LAA21629 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:34:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from cs.bu.edu (root@CS.BU.EDU [128.197.10.2]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA14047 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:32:19 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from csa.bu.edu (emerick@csa [128.197.12.3]) by cs.bu.edu ((8.8.8.buoit.v1.0)/8.8.8/(BU-S-10/16/98-v1.0a)) with ESMTP id MAA06665 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:32:10 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from emerick@localhost) by csa.bu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5/(BU-C-02/10/97-v1.0)) id MAA08491; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:32:09 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Fri, 10 Sep 1999 16:27:05 GMT" Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25065 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25065 Kai Großjohann writes: : Stainless Steel Rat writes: :: Unfortunately, this is typographically incorrect. Punctuation :: should have the same typographical features as the text it abuts. : I don't know what `abuts' means. But I always thought the rule was if : the whole sentence (or sub-sentence) is italic, the punctuation should : be italic, too, but if only one word is italic, any punctuation : directly before or after that word shouldn't be italic? That's how I've always understood it too. -Emerick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerick Rogul /\/ "i've said many, many, many unkind things about emerick@cs.bu.edu /\/ philadelphia, and i meant every one of them." ----------------------------------------------------------- david lynch