On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:03:19 +0000, Robert Marshall wrote: > I go back to the late 80's too in usenet use - I can recall a variety of > prefix characters for quoting but not *'s - they were used - as in your > reply for emphasis
Yeah, that's what I remember seeing then as well. In fact, the common usage of "/" for denoting emphasis is relatively new as I recall. > I've just looked up the 1993 version of the supercite manual > > http://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/emacs/v19_34/sc_1.html > > (I used to use this) and that only (on a quick scan) seems to mention > >'s quoting - apart from its own style of citation using name> I do remember that style of quoting as well - when it got more than one level deep, it was pretty hard to follow. I think the reduction to ">" was a way of controlling that better. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
