[altair]

Another feature of Gnus that you might want to pick up (for the autoconversion to HTML), is its textual emphasis notation. It's easier to explain by example. _word_ would become <U>word</U> in your output, *word* would become <B>word</B> and /two words/ would become <I>two words</I>. I don't know how hard that would be to implement with your parser, but it is an incredibly handy feature to have with straight textual mail and news. I like adding emphasis occasionally.

[John Robinson]

OMG! I was thinking about implementing *exactly* that earlier today, with the exception that I will not eat the characters that cause the formatting change--I thought it might cause problems. It should be very easy to do.