Mike Taylor wrote:

Then I wondered about <foreignphrase>, but first that's not really
quite accurate, and second, the Processing Expectations section in the
book just says "ForeignPrases are _often_ given special typographical
treatment, such as italics" (emphasis added) which isn't good enough.

This seems quite correct to me. These names are in italics because they are foreign and, if the output mechanism cannot handle italics, some other mechanism may be used as a fall back (such as underlining as we did in the days of mechanical typewriters).

I do it regularly.

Nigel

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