- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 06:30:45 -0500
- To: "'w3c-wai-ig@w3.org'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Davey, I guess I show my age! <grin> I started "keyboarding" back on an old manual typewriter because the then "newfangled" electric typewriter cost too much fo the school to upgrade... sound familiar? Anne At 12:04 PM 1/17/01 +0900, Davey Leslie wrote: >Anne, > >Just for the record, title of books and other separately published literary >works are customarily set in italics not underlined. Italics are also >standard for magazines, newspapers, movies, ballets, operas, musicals, and >works of art. My guess is that the use of underline in place of italics is a >holdover from typewriter technology. > >Regards, >Davey Leslie > >Thus spake Anne Pemberton on 01.1.17 8:00 AM at apembert@crosslink.net: > >> If you remove the Underline, you are probably going to make some >> folks' lives extra hard as they have to decide how else to express those >> items that are customarily underlined, such as titles. (students and profs, >> and uni's that publish papers on the web.) > >
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