[TxMt] Mail language scope

[s.ross]

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 at 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.
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