From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 26 2000 - 01:54:58 CST
In news.software.readers, J B Moreno <planb@newsreaders.com> writes:
> In USEFOR it is mentioned in section 4.3.1. as:
> Posters SHOULD avoid using control characters in US-ASCII (or other
> CCSs) except for tab (ASCII 9), formfeed (ASCII 12), and backspace
> (ASCII 8). [...] Backspace SHOULD be used only for underlining, done
> by a sequence of underscores (ASCII 95) followed by an equal number
> of backspaces, signifying that the same number of text characters
> following are to be underlined.
Shouldn't that be:
"done by an underscore, a backspace, and a character, repeated for
each character that should be underlined."
less doesn't support the underlining syntax described above, and it
wouldn't surprise me if many other pagers and newsreaders that support
normal underlining don't support that version.
It's also similarly common to support emboldening a character with the
sequence character, backspace, same character; if we're going to mention
underlining, shouldn't we mention that too? They're about equally common.
Cc'd to usefor.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>