Nick --

...and then Nick Wilson said...
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% Hi folks

Hello!


% Firstly, yes, I know this is a trivial issue!

Well, it depends on your definition of trivial...  If you mean "easy", it
may not be; if you mean "worthless", then it might be :-)


% I use vim as my editor and can't work out how to make portions of my
% text bold? I know many of you use vim so I hope someone can help.

What do you mean by bold?  Do you mean in the resultant mail message?  Do
you mean in a particular display?  Do you mean in vim itself?  Do you
mean in the interpretation of the reader?

I believe the USENET conventions for highlightin under ASCII are
_underline_ and *bold* and /italics/ (but I'm not sure); that would
suffice for the reader's view.

To get the character to print twice on the screen and thus look bolder,
you could embed backspaces like t^Hth^Hhi^His^Hs (which comes out looking
like tthhiiss).  Note that that will mess up your line wrap length
because of all of the extra characters embedded therein...

If, of course, you're composing *shudder* HTML email, you have the bold
tag <b>&lt;b&gt;</b> available.  But lots of folks will dump your mail
into the trashcan immediately upon receipt :-)

Other ideas are certainly possiblimplementations; if these don't answer
your question, give us more detail.


% 
% Cheers
% -- 
% 
% Nick Wilson
% 
% Tel:  +45 3325 0688
% Fax:  +45 3325 0677
% Web:  www.explodingnet.com


HTH & HAND

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