like _this_. And bold looks like *this*. There is even a mechanism in MS Word to convert, but while ' will be converted to left/right single quote on a change replace, _ will not, so in an imported document, you're stuck. At least I've tried it a dozen different ways with no result.Could someone elucidate what exactly an "email style italic" looks like?>What program are you using to get these things? Anything that writes. > Why would you get two consecutive ones instead of balanced On-Off pairs? Because you goofed.Are you talking about the text markup convention of [I]italics[/I] or [B]bold[/B] or etc.? I haven't seen that outside of web forums.No, I was just using that illustratively. Literally speaking, I might want XyWrite to convert _italics_ to ≪mdit≫italics≪mdnm≫ or Quark's xtg markup language italics. (P for plain)
There was if I recall a XyWrite filter for Quark 3, but I don't think it's usable in any later versions. But it would not have dealt with this email method of designating _italics_ and *bold* -- which I think is still needed for newsgroups but not for modern blogs where html labels like , are available.