Naive question: Why use stars when you can have italic and bold? I'd rather use TextMate, but would prefer not to give up my HTML mail. Is there some happy middle-ground I'm missing? (Or is Apple Mail the wrong tool for the job?)
thx
On Oct 25, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Grant Hollingworth wrote:
- Allan Odgaard throw-away-1@macromates.com [2006-10-25 10:23]:
Yes, I was also surprised when I first read the Markdown syntax, because it says it was inspired by email de facto standards, where we have done *bold*, /italic/, and _underline_ for more than a decade,
Those three styles can also be viewed as just three different ways of emphasizing a word. When I read _this_ in an email I don't think of it differently than *that*.
Markdown works for me because I tend to use *stars* in email but I'd much rather have italic than bold text in HTML. ______________________________________________________________________ For new threads USE THIS: textmate@lists.macromates.com (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate