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From: Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com>
Subject: Re: Underlines -- WIBNI
Date: 24 Aug 1999 08:40:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vxkvha5fj29.fsf@beaver.jprc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Toni Drabik's message of "24 Aug 1999 13:29:50 +0200"

There appear to be inconsistent conditions (regexps need work?) in
which emphasis is carried out.  For example, the following are all
underlined:

_like this_.
_like this._
_like
     this_.
_like
     this._

Note especially the placement of `_' and `.'.  By comparison,
sentences ending in `?' and `!' are not similarly graced:

_like this_?
_like this?_
_like
     this_?
_like
     this?_

Of these, only the 1st and 3rd should underline, because `?' isn't
part of the acceptable punctuation.

Neither is `,' which is why the following is not underlined:

_You mean, you actually see this sentence as
        underlined_?

But remove the `,' and it's fine:

_You mean you actually see this sentence as
        underlined_?

--karl


  reply	other threads:[~1999-08-24 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <m33dxa2enb.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1999-08-24 11:29 ` Toni Drabik
1999-08-24 12:40   ` Karl Kleinpaste [this message]
1999-09-24 19:08     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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