From: Gary Britt 

Thanks and thanks to Greg as well.

Gregg is right about this not being standard.  Thunderbird interprets the
codes as indicated, but MS Word 2000 interprets _  _ as codes for italics.
Certainly makes more sense for it to be underline.

Thanks,

Gary

Ellen K. wrote:
> I think _underline_ is underline and /italic/ is italic.
>
> On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:14:23 -0500, Gary Britt
>  wrote in message
> :
>
>> A while back somebody posted to me that using * as in *Bold This* provides a
>> reader with noted emphasis and in some programs like Thunderbird and Word,
>> etc. the words enclosed by * * actually appear as bold.  Also, I remember
>> _Italic_ turns stuff into italics in word, but what is the code for
underline.
>>
>> In this same message the codes for underline and italics were also
>> mentioned, but I've lost my reference to them.  Could somebody please post
>> the equivalent codes to *This is Bold* for italics and underline?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gary
>

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