proper use of italics

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Underlining words and phrases for emphasis:

Originally this was done to indicate italics to the typesetter.

(It's a bit difficult to handwrite
italics.)

Now that we have computers and
Ctrl + I, underlining should be dead as Latin.

But it's not. People do it
ALL THE TIME.

And it looks dreadful.

So don't do it.


Got it
?

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