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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@iskon.hr> writes:
> As Jargon says:
> ...
> Unless I'm missing something, your change makes the two kinds of
> emphasis indistinguishable.

(To discuss this, folks will have to `C-u g' a lot, to see what's
underlying things here.)

In both the old case and the new, *these words* and *these* *words*
have undistinguished emphasization, as Gnus displays them.  Similarly,
there is no difference between /these words/ and /these/ /words/,
because neither boldface nor italicization has any representation in
whitespace.  It is only in _these words_ /vs/ _these_ _words_ that the
effect can have any distinguishing characteristic at all, because
underlining can affect whitespace, if one lets it.

This is to say that I think the Jargon reference is just plain wrong.
Using "*emphasis like this*" and "*emphasis* *like* *this*" makes no
difference, as displayed by any font-aware reader like Gnus.

Again, it comes down to a personal preference, so I think a
customizable doodad is in order.  I'll work up a new patch shortly.