Re: gnus font shortcuts

Re: gnus font shortcuts

[David Hansen]

On Mon, 12 May 2008 23:28:00 GMT Myriam Abramson wrote:

> I know how to surround a word with "*" to make them *bold* in the email
> message. What do I do to make them appear italic? 
>
> Is there a list of those shortcuts somewhere?

That should be all:

  *bold*
  /italic/
  _underline_

Re: gnus font shortcuts

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 12 May 2008 23:28:00 GMT Myriam Abramson <mabramson@gmail.com> wrote: 

MA> I know how to surround a word with "*" to make them *bold* in the email
MA> message. What do I do to make them appear italic? 

MA> Is there a list of those shortcuts somewhere?

See the variable gnus-emphasis-alist, you can both see the defaults and
customize it to add new patterns to highlight.  Here's a sample of the
defaults (the actual Lisp form is more complicated, but this should show
it):

	 '(("\\*" "\\*" bold nil 2)
	   ("_" "_" underline)
	   ("/" "/" italic)
	   ("_/" "/_" underline-italic)
	   ("_\\*" "\\*_" underline-bold)
	   ("\\*/" "/\\*" bold-italic)
	   ("_\\*/" "/\\*_" underline-bold-italic))

It's also important to note that only other Gnus users will see these
highlights.  Everyone else will just see the ASCII characters unless
their MUA supports the patterns too.

Ted

Re: gnus font shortcuts

[Joel J. Adamson]

Myriam Abramson <mabramson@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I know how to surround a word with "*" to make them *bold* in the email
> message. What do I do to make them appear italic? 

Use _underscores_.

> Is there a list of those shortcuts somewhere?

A lot of it is classic netiquette, so some of us just have the advantage
of having used The Real Internet.

Joel

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Re: gnus font shortcuts

[Joel J. Adamson]

David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:

> On Mon, 12 May 2008 23:28:00 GMT Myriam Abramson wrote:
>
>> I know how to surround a word with "*" to make them *bold* in the email
>> message. What do I do to make them appear italic? 
>>
>> Is there a list of those shortcuts somewhere?
>
> That should be all:
>
>   *bold*
>   /italic/
>   _underline_

I stand corrected; I'll put in that since I choose to use a font that
doesn't have slants, and underlining was originally a printing order for
italics, underlining is still good ;)

Joel

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Re: gnus font shortcuts

[David Hansen]

On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:00:31 -0400 Joel J. Adamson wrote:

> I stand corrected; I'll put in that since I choose to use a font that
> doesn't have slants, and underlining was originally a printing order for
> italics, underlining is still good ;)

You can use a different font for italic faces.

David

Re: gnus font shortcuts

[Joel J. Adamson]

David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:

> On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:00:31 -0400 Joel J. Adamson wrote:
>
>> I stand corrected; I'll put in that since I choose to use a font that
>> doesn't have slants, and underlining was originally a printing order for
>> italics, underlining is still good ;)
>
> You can use a different font for italic faces.

Interesting: what variable do I customize?
Joel

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Re: gnus font shortcuts

[David Hansen]

On Tue, 13 May 2008 12:35:14 -0400 Joel J. Adamson wrote:

> David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:00:31 -0400 Joel J. Adamson wrote:
>>
>>> I stand corrected; I'll put in that since I choose to use a font that
>>> doesn't have slants, and underlining was originally a printing order for
>>> italics, underlining is still good ;)
>>
>> You can use a different font for italic faces.
>
> Interesting: what variable do I customize?

Actually every face that has set the "italic" flag.  I don't know if
there is a way to find out about all these faces.  A good start is to
customize-face italic and then set every face you want to be italic to
"inherit" from the `italic' face.

IMHO italic looks pretty ugly on computer screens, so there are just
very few cases where I want that (the gnus emphasize thing is one of
them).

David

Re: gnus font shortcuts

[Myriam Abramson]

Okay, thanks. So, you can't have italics? 

> jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) wrote:
> Myriam Abramson <mabramson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I know how to surround a word with "*" to make them *bold* in the email
>> message. What do I do to make them appear italic? 
>
> Use _underscores_.
>
>> Is there a list of those shortcuts somewhere?
>
> A lot of it is classic netiquette, so some of us just have the advantage
> of having used The Real Internet.
>
> Joel
>
> -- 
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> Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit
> Massachusetts General Hospital
> Boston, MA  02114
> (617) 643-1432
> (303) 880-3109
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> http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj
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Re: gnus font shortcuts

[Joel J. Adamson]

David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:

> On Tue, 13 May 2008 12:35:14 -0400 Joel J. Adamson wrote:
>
>> David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:00:31 -0400 Joel J. Adamson wrote:
>>>
>>>> I stand corrected; I'll put in that since I choose to use a font that
>>>> doesn't have slants, and underlining was originally a printing order for
>>>> italics, underlining is still good ;)
>>>
>>> You can use a different font for italic faces.
>>
>> Interesting: what variable do I customize?
>
> Actually every face that has set the "italic" flag.  I don't know if
> there is a way to find out about all these faces.  A good start is to
> customize-face italic and then set every face you want to be italic to
> "inherit" from the `italic' face.
>
> IMHO italic looks pretty ugly on computer screens, so there are just
> very few cases where I want that (the gnus emphasize thing is one of
> them).

This works: I set an alternative font family (Utopia, same as
variable-pitch) for the italic face, then set the inherit attribute on
the default face to "italic" and now I get italics in a different face.
Very cool.

Here's the excerpt from custom-set-faces:

'(italic ((t (:slant italic :family "Utopia"))))
'(default ((t (:inherit italic))))     

Joel
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