From: Gary Britt 

I see these conventions can't be used together as the "thanks"
below didn't come out bold-italic.  /Oh Well/.

I had never heard of these conventions before, so this was something new for me.

Gary

Gary Britt wrote:
> Came out just *fine* in my Thunderbird display.  The bold was bold and
> the underline was underlined.   I also like Thunderbird's ability to
> receive plain text from a news group or wherever but display it in
> proportional spaced html style text.  Much nicer to read that way.
>
> */Thanks,/*
>
> Gary
>
> Gary Britt wrote:
>> OK, so this is *bold* then  and this would be _underlined_.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> Tony Williams wrote:
>>> 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 ;)
>>>

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