Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amdahl!gam From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: FYI: underlining/highlighting in news articles Message-ID: <656@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 01:15:26 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.656 Posted: Mon Dec 3 01:15:26 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 19:18:58 EST References: <> <1951@nsc.UUCP> Organization: Amdahl Corp, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 25 > In article <132@osu-eddie.UUCP> karl@osu-eddie.UUCP writes: > >Greetings. I have received quite a bit of mail in the recent past from > >people who are wondering how I get reverse-video or underlining into my net > >postings. > > Please note a couple of things: > > 1) These actions are NOT recommended because they only work if the terminal > on the other end happens to be compatible with yous. There are many > terminals out there guaranteed not to be, and control sequences can do > unexpected things and upset the person reading the article. We've had cases > where people have accidently locked, reset, or otherwise made a terminal > unusable or unreadable. Mr. Kleinpaste's suggestion was to use underscore-backspace-character combinations, and then the reader could use an appropriate filter to do highlighting on their terminal. (This works very nicely with the hp(1) filter for my hp2621). I know of no terminals that gag on backspaces, except perhaps some very stupid hardcopy terminals. -- Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,sun}!amdahl!gam 37 22'50" N / 122 59'12" W [ This is just me talking. ]