Re: Email/News markup

[Tassilo Horn]

Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:

Hi Dan,

> 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.

The reason is that many special emacs buffers have names enclosed in
asterisks, e.g., *Group*, *Messages*, and *unsent mail*.  So not
removing the asterisks certainly makes sense when discussing emacs
related stuff.

If you wanted to, you could use `gnus-parameters' to set
`gnus-emphasis-alist' in a way that removes the asterisks in non-emacs
related groups.

Bye,
Tassilo