From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: origin of `notation' Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:55:01 +0200 Message-ID: <83hb22d6ze.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321549024 20148 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2011 16:57:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:57:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 17 17:57:01 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RR5Gm-0000RR-Qz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:57:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52053 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RR5Gm-0004rg-FX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:57:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41405) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RR5Gh-0004nZ-Ft for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:56:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RR5Gg-0000DB-4X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:56:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:55536) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RR5Gf-0000D3-PM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:56:54 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LUT00L00DNABY00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:56:52 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.237.133]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LUT00LU2DQR1OC0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:56:52 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82946 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:51:53 -0600 > From: "Buchs, Kevin" > > My follow-up question is why it is still used for online documentation when emacs can do such wonderful things with fonts in graphical mode. Why not just produce italics or color? Because no one wrote the code to do that. Feel free to suggest a patch along these lines to Emacs developers.