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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: FYI: underlining/highlighting in news articles
Message-ID: <20980012@cmu-cs-k.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 23:00:03 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  4 23:00:03 1984
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Problems with underscore-backspace underlining:

It is processed by more(1).  Therefore, it will not work unless the message
is piped through more(1).  This does not happen if the message is short, or
if an alternate filter like pg is used.

It looks funny in a text editor.  To produce it, an extra processing phase
is needed to convert some comprehensible format into the
underscore-backspace format.

Words which contain underscore-backspace sequences cannot be readily
searched for in more or most editors.
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Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
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