[Doc-SIG] RE: emphasis presentation (was verse construct (was Re: [Docutils-develop] Parsing oddness))

[Guido van Rossum]

> Paul Moore wrote:
> > As a related point, I personally would prefer ``*emphasis*``
> > to be bold, not italic, as this is the usage I see most
> > frequently in E-Mail.

[Tony Ibbs]
> Interesting. For me, *because* I see the asterisk delimitation more
> often, I want it to be italic - italic for me is more emphasised (easier
> to discriminate) than bold.

FWIW, I'm with Tony.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)