Re: question: modifying face (bold, italic, underline) in draft news articles

[Joel Reicher]

Gernot Hassenpflug <gh@nospam.com> writes:

>   My first question is whether there is a way of specifying bold or
> italic face for selected draft article text, or whether one has to add
> '*' or '_' around the text manually. Similarly, is there an italic
> symbol or command?

I think you can use the forward slash to do /italics/.

There don't seem to be keystrokes for these things. Just put the
characters in.

Cheers,

        - Joel