[Evolution] How to emphasis plain text - Was: [off-topic] I tried to import emails into EVO. But, it didn't quite work out as planned.

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Fri, 2018-07-13 at 10:11 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> this made me recall that using spaces with lower case letters is
> against some styling/typography rule. Those can/might be used only
> with capitals. We've been told something like that in one course, oh,
> like two decades ago when I've been on college. As my memory goes
> wrong often and twists what it can twist, I can always be wrong.

Hi Milan,

indeed spacing without capital letters is tricky.

W i t h C a p i t a l L e t t e r s the space between words at least is
noticeable in a CamalCase style, without it   r e q u i r e s   w e a k
w o r k a r o u n d s , but such extra spaces between words might not
get proper formatted in HTML, so it could look strange for multipart
emails.

IIRC some MUAs notice __double "_", "*" and "/" to format plain text__
automagically. Some users _tend_to_use_an_underscore_ between each word.

I guess correct is usage of the **double asterisk** to simulate bold
text, but I prefer a _single underscore_ at the beginning and the end of
a group of words, since the asterisk is also used for things like *lol*,
*hug* etc. and using a double underscore does look overstated without
auto-formatting of plain text. IIRC a double "_" is for underline, a
double "/" for italic and a double "*" for bold, by MUAs that format
plain text automagically. I might be mistaken, since text attributes for
editing Wikis and forum postings could be _italic_, *italic*, __bold__,
**bold**, `monospace` or similar, too. However, CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY are
for boot camps.

Regards,
Ralf