Re: Cleaning House

Dailey, David P. wrote:

 > I have been told (but am unable to verify it in a quick search)
 > that the underlining of titles of books  in manuscripts began
 > as a convention to signal to typesetters that the words of the
 > title should be typeset using italics.

Yes, see Hart (previously cited), although "began" is almost
certainly an exaggeration :-)

Philip Taylor