Is there a way to get more formatting options from a gnus message buffer when composing a mail? I'd like to do hyperlinks of the style common in markdown or org-mode, viz:
[[example link][http://www.example.com]] [example link](http://www.example.com) Similarly, I'm wondering if there's a way to enable more "fancy" options such as bullet points, blockquotes, etc. I found org-gnus.el, but I'm too much of a newbie to understand what it does.
-Steven
Maybe org-mime.el by Eric Schulte.
;; WYSWYG, html mime composition using org-mode ;; ;; For mail composed using the orgstruct-mode minor mode, this ;; provides a function for converting all or part of your mail buffer ;; to embedded html as exported by org-mode. Call `org-mime-htmlize' ;; in a message buffer to convert either the active region or the ;; entire buffer to html. ;; ;; Similarly the `org-mime-org-buffer-htmlize' function can be called ;; from within an org-mode buffer to convert the buffer to html, and ;; package the results into an email handling with appropriate MIME ;; encoding. 
muse-message. I am already familiar with org syntax, so I don't have to learn anything new. Also, org-mode's WYSIWYG method of displaying links looks cleaner onscreen, which means less likelihood of me making a mistake. Thank you! I located a package called muse-message, which does exactly what I was hoping for. I have not ever used Muse, but it's a markup system similar to markdown.
Muse-message allows for using Muse markup, and then M-x muse-message-markup turns the message buffer into a multipart MIME message with an HTML component.
org-gnus.elis for linking to messages viaorg-capture. For instance, if capture a appointment from a gnus buffer it will save a link to mail under that heading.