Re: [Pan-users] underlines etc in pan

[Charles Kerr]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:29:36PM +0100, Gollum wrote:
> Sebastian Fischer wrote:
> 
> > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> > > are you talking about automatically converting plain text which
> > > looks like'*word*' or '_word_', and underlining or bolding it?
> > 
> > Yes this ist what I mean.
> 
> I think that would be a nice feature, provided that it's a
> user-selectable option.
> 
> Don't forget /italics/.
> 
> > > a. it's not what the poster originally wrote, and so might obscure
> > > what they mean.
> 
> This may be a problem when discussing source code with pointers or
> labels starting with "*" or "_", if the implementations is too
> ambitious.
> 
> And of course it may be a problem when discussing topics like this,
> therefore is should be an option.
> 
> > > [..] there are probably some wacky ways to misparse this stuff,
> > > which leads to all sorts of formatting errors.
> 
> The implementation shouldn't be too ambitious.  For instance,
> underlining shouldn't cross spaces or line feeds:
> _This_text_should_be_underlined_  but  _this text should not._
> *This* *text* *should* *be* *bold*  but  *this text should not.*

Are there any commonly-used practices that Pan should follow?
What do Agent, Outlook, KNode, etc. bold/italic/underline on?