Re: Boldface typing

[twlllmxxx]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:23:52 +0100, "Pascal J. Bourguignon"
<pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:

>twlllmxxx <dogbreath@twilliam.org> writes:
>
>> Just learning emacs. Editing text,
>
>Ok.  So what is a text file?
>
>
>> I want to type a word in boldface
>> and then go back to default. So I use M-o b and type in boldface, then
>> M-o d and continue typing. It looks right: one word in boldface and
>> the rest in default. Then I save the file. Then I re-open it, and the
>> boldface is gone. Maybe I made a mistake. I repeat the editing, save
>> the file, and then re-open it. Again the boldface is gone. Any ideas?
>>
>> I'm working from Learning GNU Emacs by Cameron et al., O'Reilly.
>>
>> This is GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600).
>
>
>Use M-x enriched-mode RET first.  Then you will save not a text file,
>but an enriched-text file.

Thank you, pjb, that's very helpful.  I just started with emacs.