On 2017-04-27, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote:
>
>>OK, so how does one do that within mutt?
>
> I would suggest that the most prudent approach is to use a lightweight
> markup language (LML). LMLs tend to be designed such that, while they
> CAN be rendered into a presentation form, the source code is also
> (relatively) legible.
>
> So, let's say I wanted to write something in bold. In HTML that could be
><span style="font-weight:bold">bold</span. In LaTeX, it would be
> \textbf{bold}. But in markdown, it's simply **bold**.
Yes, I've been using Tex/LaTeX for 25+ years, various roff flavors for
30+ years, as well as asciidoc, markdown, and re-strucutred text for
not-quite-as-many years.
> A good LML would have a MIME type associated with it (I see that
> markdown does, but reStructuredText doesn't, for example), so it can
> either be viewed (as source) in the pager or rendered (as presentation
> form) by a mailcap entry.
The question was how to do it _within_ _mutt_ instead of preparing an
HTML or PDF file externally and attaching it.
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