[DMB]
Can anyone tell me how to indicate EMPHASIS in a sentence without
using italics, underlining or anything like that? I wish there was a
clear and simple way to emphasize a particular WORD within a
sentence. The idea is to make the central point really POP OUT at the
reader. But I just can't think of an EASY WAY to do that.
[Arlo]
For sheer volume-emphasis, caps works, and it is the textual
equivalent of "shouting". But it works only when an "!" would be
appropriate. Take the very preceding sentence.
If I said, "For sheer volume-emphasis, caps works, and it is the
textual equivalent of SHOUTING.", the meaning changes, what I am
doing is yelling the word to you to make an emphatic point. It
assumes you may have, perhaps, ignored my use of "shouting", or
changed it, or whatever.
This is not the same as the meaning conveyed (or attempted to convey)
with italics, underlining, color-formatting or as I pointed out
"scare quotes" (right there is a nice little nod to self-reference).
Arlo is a "fool", is quite different than, Arlo is a FOOL.
Saying, the belief that "all planets are spheres" is being debated,
is quite different from saying, the theory that ALL PLANETS ARE
SPHERES is being debated.
In the case of what I wrote to Marsha, the proper syntax would've
been either singular quotes or italics. I refrain on aesthetic
grounds from using single quotes to offset a string that contains a
single single-quote. The coder in me finds such unended strings ugly.
And I won't use italics, and so scare quotes work fine and I doubt
any one else any trouble extracting my meaning.
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