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[W.Kenworthy]

One mans feature is another mans bug: I have to turn this off in
openoffice to stop it mangling my text ...

BillK


On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 11:52 +0800, Kai wrote:
> Alex Polglaze wrote:
> > 
> >>> There's a *reason* for people periodically wipe-and-reinstalling 
> >>> their MS-Windows partitions every so often, y'know?
> > 
> > For reasons unknown to me, when I receive a message where the word is in 
> >  between "*", as in "reason" above, it is coming out in bold on my 
> > Thunderbird.
> > 
> > This has only been happening in the last few days, and I haven't seen 
> > this before. Is this some new feature?
> > 
> > Alex
> 
> It's a feature, but I've had it the whole time I've been using 
> Thunderbird. Words with _underscrores_ either side will show up as being 
> underlined, and anything with /forward/ /slashes/ shows up in italics. 
> Cool huh ? :)
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