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On Fri, 05 Nov 1999 18:38:09 GMT, Kalen <paradox@intelligencia.com> wrote:
> In the context you're taling about (manuscripts, NOT newsgroups), if
> underline = italic, then how do they indicate if text is to be set
> in underline?

Generally, you don't; nicely set text tends not to use underlining.
Underlining is fine for typewritten or handwritten text, but it's
pretty ugly in a set document.

> Anyway, Ian was referring to *usenet* (where we are all discussing
> this) so he was correct.

The particular convention he described is one of many for descriptive
markup of plain text.  The part of it that seems to have come closest
to universality is denoting underlining with '_', and even this,
usually only for titles.  I was pointing out that underlining is
itself a shorthand for italics (especially for marking up a book
title).  So the earlier poster was not really wrong to use that
description.


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