Re: Richtext

[Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Excerpts from internet.ietf-822: 7-Feb-92 Re: Richtext Bill
Janssen@parc.xerox. (1082)

> > I mean, perhaps we can come up with a very basic Richtext format that looks a
> > lot like the way we express those concepts now in non-rich text.

> Sort of a cute idea.  We could use asterisks for *emphasis* (which might
> be conventionally rendered with a bold font), and underscores for
> _specialized-language_ (e.g., English terms in the middle of French
> text, computer or other technical terms, file names, etc.,

Actually, I pursued this idea for a while, but I'm not convinced you can
solve the problems associated with nesting.  In particular, in the above
example, things like "*" are both begin & end markers.  Nesting doesn't
work.  -- NB