On 2021-06-13 at 16:42, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > How do you make the text bold ? The * is enough ? You don't. How the text is rendered depends entirely on the mail client the person is using, and potentially on the configuration of that client. Some clients - including the one I'm using, and apparently also the one you're using - will interpret *asterisks* as meaning that the enclosed text should be rendered as boldface; mine also interprets /slashes/ as indicating that the enclosed text should be rendered in italics, and may also interpret _underscores_ as meaning that the enclosed text should be rendered with an underline. (In principle the same thing could also be extended to -hyphens- meaning the enclosed text should be rendered as strikethrough, but I don't think I've seen that in practice.) Other clients will interpret the asterisks, etc., literally, and will not apply any special formatting because of them. You can't affect that. So, in brief: if you want to convey emphasis, feel free to use *asterisks* or /slashes/ or _underscores_. Some clients will apply formatting as a result of seeing that; others won't, but the people reading the text may still interpret the annotations as indicating emphasis anyway. I got started using *asterisks* well before I was using a client that would apply special formatting for them, so I naturally interpret them as indicating emphasis, even with no special formatting in place; I expect there are probably many other people out there with the same conditioning. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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