Re: Email/News markup

[Dan Espen]

Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:

> Every once in a while, I like to
> _underline_ parts of an email or post.
>
> (If you don't see the word "underline" underlined,
> the rest of this won't make sense.)
>
> For me, when I put a single underscore before and after a word,
> that word displays as underlined when I view the sent email or post.
>
> 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.
>
> When I do the same with underlines, I don't see extra underlines before
> and after the word.
>
> Is the problem on my end or is this inconsistency done on purpose?
>
> Once more:
>
> _underlined_ - okay
> _bold_       - extra asterisks
> /italic/     - done with slashes (doesn't work)

(Oops, must have mistyped the bold just above,)
I meant:

*bold*

-- 
Dan Espen