Re: ASCII convention

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> That's not possible in HTML, either. HTML doesn't *guarantee*
> that the browser that your reader is using would render it in
> bold. It's only a *suggestion*.

>> Think about text-mode browsers like lynx running on a dumb
>> terminal. Think about blind people who are browsing the web
>> and reading your HTML with the help of speech synthesizers.

Peter> He doesn't. He uses a braille output device -- the speech
Peter> is very, very slow compared to reading.

Irrelevant point.

Does the braille output device show the text in *BOLD*?


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