Thunderbird Mail Experience

[John Hupp]

On 5/15/2013 1:33 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> On 05/15/2013 11:28 AM, Aere Greenway wrote:
>> On 05/15/2013 11:19 AM, Aere Greenway wrote:
>>> The only problem I have observed, is what appears in the indented 
>>> line below.  In that line, I selected the word "bold" and changed it 
>>> to bold emphasis, and it appeared that way (in bold) to me in the 
>>> e-mail I sent. Here is the line:
>>>
>>>     This line has a single word in *bold* emphasis (or at least, it 
>>> should have).
>>>
>>> To avoid that problem, I simply avoid using different emphasis 
>>> (which you can't do in plain text anyway).
>> John, and all:
>>
>> It appears that they have fixed the font problem I have seen in the 
>> past (in Lubuntu 12.10).
>>
>> If you view e-mails in HTML, you will see the word in *bold* above 
>> (and to the left).
>>
>> When the problem was there, you would see something like /bold/ instead.
>>
> All:
>
> Apparently the problem is still there.  It looks like the formatting 
> problems only appear in the prior e-mail text, and above, the 
> character "*" appears, rather then the "/" I have seen before.
>
Thanks, Aere, I didn't remember that it was you I had the previous 
exchange with.

I'm glad to hear that the more severe font bugs don't appear under 
Lubuntu, just this rendering of previously-sent bold text encapsulated 
with *'s (and probably italic text with /'s).

I think I recall TB rendering plain text that uses traditional emphasis 
encapsulation characters (* for bold and / for italics) with their HTML 
equivalents (so *bold emphasis* in plain text was rendered as *bold 
emphasis*) by the TB reader.  It sounds like it is doing the opposite 
with previously-sent mail.
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