l v <lv at aol.com> wrote: > Mike Schilling wrote: > > A formatting-only subset of HTML would be useful for both e-mail and Usenet > > posts. > > I would *agree* (your news reader may bold that last word) It had bloody better not. You're cross-posting this to a C newsgroup, where *ptr* 4 is a legal (albeit inadvisably spaced) expression. Richard