I certainly use bold and italic for different things. Bold is used for drawing attention to something...whereas italic is used to substitute for tone of voice,
That sounds about right. Thanks; well put.
In environments where I have bold and/or italics available, I only use stars for emote-style actions
Ah. Yes, that's the/an alternative use of starring, but I think I also use it in much the same was as I (and you) use italic (and occasionally bold) if I'm too lazy to type the html tags, or if there's subtle difference I feel starring conveys.
And the issue is obfuscated because starring is an abbreviation for bold in typography (or for one of the others, I forget) but that doesn't quite line up with how I use it; but some word processors/IM clients/websites, etc replace it in that fasion.
Using a <tag> is fine, but I always forget when I may be typing in something that accepts html, so try to avoid using it unless I'm really wrapping an unconventional property, else I'll find it just disappearing.
Although, come to think of it, in lj it'd be an amusing way to send post scripts to a comment to the post author only :)
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Date: 2008-02-22 07:36 pm (UTC)That sounds about right. Thanks; well put.
In environments where I have bold and/or italics available, I only use stars for emote-style actions
Ah. Yes, that's the/an alternative use of starring, but I think I also use it in much the same was as I (and you) use italic (and occasionally bold) if I'm too lazy to type the html tags, or if there's subtle difference I feel starring conveys.
And the issue is obfuscated because starring is an abbreviation for bold in typography (or for one of the others, I forget) but that doesn't quite line up with how I use it; but some word processors/IM clients/websites, etc replace it in that fasion.
Using a <tag> is fine, but I always forget when I may be typing in something that accepts html, so try to avoid using it unless I'm really wrapping an unconventional property, else I'll find it just disappearing.
Although, come to think of it, in lj it'd be an amusing way to send post scripts to a comment to the post author only :)