I think that if you look at the U2 utility EMAIL, you will see that it converts XY4 italics to what some of you want, namely, _this sort of thing_. Just try it. Write something using XY4 italics code, then invoke EMAIL, and see if it converts to underscore before and after the italicised part in XY4. It should. I remember this because I was the one who asked Carl years ago to create this particular utility, i.e., EMAIL to do this sort of thing. I think that you will also discover that it cnoverts è to 'e, etc. M.W. Poirier P.S.: As for going the other way, I know that EMAIL will not do that, but there may be some other U2 utility, of which I am not aware, that does. ------ On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Bill Troop wrote: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.