Re: [O] OT: italics [was: Re: take the name of org-class event from heading]

[Charles Philip Chan]

Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Nick:

> I like boxquotes for things like Info snippets, variable/function
> docstrings and FAQ entries.

Yes, I am addicted to boxquotes for things like that too.

> That's inconvenient for code that somebody might want to cut-and-paste
> in order to run however (one would need to edit it to get it back into
> runnable form), so I use the Message function
> message-mark-inserted-region to quote code.

True.

> I also did the following experiment: I saved the HTML form of the mail
> (decoding it from quoted-printable to HTML with qprint) and looked at
> it in Firefox (got italics: no surprise), and in w3m in emacs (with
> the oblique capable Liberaion font I mentioned previously, which *can*
> show italics): I get no italics in the latter, so I guess even w3m
> cannot interpret arbitrary HTML, maybe because the underlying browser
> is supposed to be text-only, so font style information does not get
> through.

Yes, the Italics doesn't show up in W3M. I can see it in Firefox if I
use "View HTML parts in browser" in Gnus.

Charles

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