Re: Email/News markup

[Dan Espen]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
>
> Hi Dan,
>
>> What I don't understand is that *bold* is supposed to be achieved by
>> using asterisks instead of underlines.  When I use asterisks that
>> way, sure enough, the word in question is displayed as bold.  But I
>> see the asterisks too.
>
> The reason is that many special emacs buffers have names enclosed in
> asterisks, e.g., *Group*, *Messages*, and *unsent mail*.  So not
> removing the asterisks certainly makes sense when discussing emacs
> related stuff.

Interesting.
Now I'm not sure what I want.

> If you wanted to, you could use `gnus-parameters' to set
> `gnus-emphasis-alist' in a way that removes the asterisks in non-emacs
> related groups.

Just looked at gnus-emphasis-alist.
It's as clear as mud.

(I suppose I can figure it out.)

Thanks all.

-- 
Dan Espen