Text decoration in Microsoft Outlook

Question

I am sending a file via mutt to an e-mail address. I would like to make certain text appear bold in the e-mail in Outlook. I was hoping it is possible through the base set of ruby commands.

I tried using \e commands, and that works well from a Terminal Window, but the output file just literally shows the \e commands (like \e[0m). I think this is because a Terminal Window is an ASCII interpreter and Outlook is not.

Answer 1

use the HTML tag <strong>

Answer 2

You can use Ruby on Rails' Action Mailer. Use its html method and do the text decoration in HTML.