[Gllug] Email Formats

[Pete Ryland]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:06:11AM +0000, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> >What I would like is a subset of HTML to avoid the abuse where you could
> >have;
> >
> >A few different fonts
> >About four colours.
> >Background highlighting but only shades of grey
> >Underline
> >Tables  
> >Ladies
> 
> But that's *precisely* what caused HTML's downfall. Physical markup
> is *bad* when you don't have control of the output medium. Instead,
> you should be aiming for logical markup that says "this section should
> be emphasised", etc. That way, the MUA can present the information
> to the user to the best of its ability. The user can even customize
> it to suit their own tastes ("I want emphasised text to be show in
> 15pt bold italic ITC Garamond, underlined, with a flashing yellow
> and purple border").

Which is *exactly* what one can do with mutt/vim!  Text inside asterisks,
slashes or underscores (some conventional "markup" for email) can be
highlighted in a configurable way, even on a console.

Pete

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