How do you address a former president of the United States? I think I've got to phone one up on Wednesday.
Posted by andrewb at December 12, 2005 08:40 AM
"Mr. President":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1335328,00.html
Yeah, he beat me to it. I've talked to Carter a couple of times and was told that was what to use.
Of course you could always try "your billship" and see what happens.
Mr President. And, yes, it was Carter. How one longs to be able to write that the authorities have given permission for an interview with the current president -- in his cell.
Textile formatting works here. Double hyphens are automatically converted to en dashes, quotes are automatically smartened. You can put dashes and asterisks around text to make
italics bold and other silly effects easily.
- Text wrapped in Asterisks which * will be bold. The asterisks must touch each end of the bold text. There must a space before the first and after the last.
- Text wrapped in underscores - _ - will be italicised. The underscores must touch each end of the italics. There must a space before the first and after the last.
- Paragraphs starting bq. will be block quoted. There must be no space before the "b" and one space after the full stop.
- A hyperlink is made by wrapping the link text in double quotes, followed immediately by a colon, then the URL. If there is a question mark in the URL, wrap the whole lot in square brackets.
- I use two classes to mark up text that deserves it. sane text looks like this. loony text looks like that. The syntax for those is %(sane)[space] sane text %; loony is left as an exercise to the reader.
