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I have discovered through trial and error that plaintext (e.g., .txt) files sent to Kindle have at least some support for markup. I'm note sure where it happens, but if I email a plaintext file to my Send-to-Kindle eddress, some hints get interpreted:

  • Text surrounded by <whitespace><underscore>...<underscore> will be rendered on the Kindle as underlined.
  • Text surrounded by single asterisks (*) will be rendered as italic.

As an example, the following decorations in a plaintext file:

_this is underlined_

this is italicised


this is underlined and italicised

will be rendered on my Kindle as:

this is underlined

this is italicised

this is underlined and italicised

(except I can't do the underlining here on SE, apparently.)

What I haven't found is any way to mark text as bold or 'heading' sizes.

Are these even supported?

Thanks!

RoUS
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  • Here on SE, bold is done with double asterisks: * * bold text * * Of course, no spaces between them. In the past, slashes were the delimiters for italic text, but that convention is not so common these days. – virolino Oct 14 '22 at 06:53
  • Here on SE, text becomes a headline if you "underline" it with at least one minus "-". – virolino Oct 14 '22 at 06:57
  • Unfortunately, I'm talking about .txt files sent to and rendered in Amazon Kindle, not here on SE. :sad: – RoUS Nov 15 '22 at 00:15
  • but did you tried the double asterisk? The conventions look similar. And a triple asterisk might be bold+italic. I do not have a kindle, I cannot test it. – virolino Nov 15 '22 at 07:09
  • Yes, I believe I tried those, but I will verify again. So far only italic has been markable. I haven't tried including Unicode fragments (such as from https://YayText.com/ yet, either. Thanks! – RoUS Jan 04 '23 at 07:40

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