Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-k.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!noao!hao!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-k!tim 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 Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-k.20980012 Posted: Tue Dec 4 23:00:03 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 07:41:53 EST References: <3@osu-eddie.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 20 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. -=- Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center ARPA: Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K uucp: seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim CompuServe: 74176,1360 audio: shout "Hey, Tim!" "Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains." Liber AL, II:9.