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From: karl@osu-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: FYI: underlining/highlighting in news articles
Message-ID: <132@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 16:22:33 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  1 16:22:33 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 05:44:35 EST
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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.  I found out about it only  accidentally  myself, but here is what
you do: You insert sequences of "underscore-backspace-character" in order to
get "character" highlighted.

Test lines:
_T_h_e_s_e _t_h_r_e_e _l_i_n_e_s _a_r_e _e_n_t_i_r_e_l_y  _h_i_g_h_l_i_g_h_t_e_d_. _I_f _y_o_u _d_o _n_o_t _s_e_e _t_h_e_m _a_s _b_e_i_n_g
_h_i_g_h_l_i_g_h_t_e_d_,  _(_1_) _y_o_u_r _n_e_w_s _s_o_f_t_w_a_r_e _[_o_r _p_e_r_h_a_p_s _m_o_r_e_(_1_)_] _d_o_e_s  _n_o_t  _s_u_p_p_o_r_t
_i_t_, _o_r _(_2_) _y_o_u_r _t_e_r_m_c_a_p _d_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n _c_o_n_t_a_i_n_s _n_o _u_s_/_u_e _f_i_e_l_d_s_.

If your terminal doesn't  support  underlining,  try setting us/ue to be the
same  thing  as the so/se (standout, or highlight) fields. This is  a  great
improvement  over  attempts  to   "highlight"   phrases  using  *asterisks*,
CAPITALIZATION, \weird slashes/, or s p a c e d   w o r d s.

If you still don't understand what I mean, save this article, and look at it
with a visual editor (vi, emacs), or with od(1).
-- 
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Karl Kleinpaste @ Bell Labs, Columbus   614/860-5107  {cbosgd,ihnp4}!_c_b_r_m_a_!_k_k
                @ Ohio State University 614/422-0915    cbosgd!osu-eddie!karl