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From: jdb@mordor.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Re: ANSI mode for text enhancement? - (nf)
Message-ID: <2460@mordor.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Apr-84 22:14:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 16 22:14:34 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Apr-84 08:33:04 EST
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Organization: S-1 Project, LLNL
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Please, if you MUST underline your text (using underscores with
backspaces or carriage returns), enter the underscores first,
then back up and enter the text.  Not everyone uses "more" to
read news, and it is really frustrating to encounter missing words
in an article because the CRT erased the text when it backspaced
and wrote the underscores.  (Remember V6 nroff?)

It seems to be an informal convention that emphasis is denoted with
*asterisks* or ALL CAPITAL LETTERS rather than with terminal-dependent
sequences.  I suggest that we continue doing things this way.
-- 
  John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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