In November 2004 there were several threads dealing
with marking bold text in text files ("Marking bold & italic in
.txt").
One of those messages, dated Nov 12, 2004,
indicated that the PG FAQ's would be updated to indicate the use of asterisks
(*) to mark bold text, similar to PG's FAQ V.94's standard of using underscores
to indicate italicized text. Was this update ever done?
FYI - I checked the Distributed Proofing site's
FAQ's, but the only reference I can find of bold text says to use the HTML
<B> and </B> tags.
In the absence of a PG standard, is it OK for
me to use asterisks to indicate bold text within a document? (Note that I'd only
be doing this for bold text inside paragraphs, not for things like headings that
might be bolded as part of some automatic formatting process.)
Al