Well, technically, we were here first... They reinvented OUR wheel! ;) PG has been using _ to indicate italics for as long as I can remember. Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "David A. Desrosiers" <hacker@gnu-designs.com> To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Marking Bold in text files Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:46:56 -0500 (EST)

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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?

I can't help but notice that this is the exact opposite of the Markdown syntax and format used by many "wiki" forums and online web applications. Any particular reason for reinventing this wheel again? Why not reuse one of the existing systems for plain-text markup, that is ultimately easier to parse out for further conversion back to any other format (bbcode, Markdown, wikitext).

Just my 0.02 Euros.

David A. Desrosiers desrod@gnu-designs.com http://gnu-designs.com _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d