From: Tony Williams 

Gary Britt wrote:
> When composing in plain text with Thunderbird how do you change the
> color or bold or italic of a particular word??

It's really pretty limited and I don't think you can do colour. I just
enclose sections in asterisks for *bold*, forward slashes for /italics/ and
underscores for _underline_. No guarantees that these informal conventions
will be understood by the recipients' newsreaders, but at least they're
readable by anything.

If you do feel the need to talk about politics there's always CAPS LOCK ;)

--
Tony

> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
> Tony Williams wrote:
>> Robert Comer wrote:
>>>> Why won't Thunderbird let you set the color and and bold
& italic
>>>> for plain text fonts??
>>>
>>> I don't know, but when using plain text, the readers of your messages
>>> are only going to get plain text in whatever font they have as default.
>>>
>>
>> True, but Thunderbird can display plain text as *bold*, /italic/ or
>> _underlined_ when reading replies and quotebacks. I also have it set
>> to display different levels of quoting in different colours which is
>> quite nifty.
>>

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