From: "Glenn Meadows" 

While that's true to some degree, as it applies to email, and news groups,
I don't think those attributes are supported in plain text.  PT is just the
ascii characters.  The person receiving the email sets the font and size
they want to view.

Your last TEST shows up just as Verdana 12 in my newsreader, because that's
how I've got it set to display everything.  So, if you're going to want to
use emphasis, I don't think you can use color, I/B/U and have it show up.
I'm probably wrong, but that's my understanding.

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Glenn M.
"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:4558d26e{at}w3.nls.net...
> Well I suppose that's true.  Plain text or monospaced fonts anyway are
> capable of using the bold and italic attributes.  So I was thinking why
> shouldn't plain text messages be able to use plain text bold, italic, and
> underline fonts?
>
> Gary
>
> Glenn Meadows wrote:
>> Isn't that a contradiction?
>>
>> Plain Text, is Plain Text.
>>
>> Anything with color/bold/Italic is either Rich Text, or HTML.
>>

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