On Mar 31, 2008, at 7:04 AM, Roberto Castaldo wrote:
"If you look at an underlined text, what is your very first idea
about it?",
and they ALL answered: "That's a really important text"!!!
Strictly in the context of text, underlined text is a typographical
relative of the double-space following a period: a throwback to the
typewriter age...
From Wikipedia:
An underline is one or more horizontal lines immediately below a
portion of writing. Single, and occasionally double, underlining
was originally used in hand-written or typewritten documents to
emphasise text. In a manuscript to be typeset, various forms of
underlining were conventionally used to indicate that text
should be set in a special typeface such as italics to show
emphasis, part of a procedure known as markup. With the advent
of word processing, different typefaces can be used in the
manuscript directly, so that underlining is no longer needed for
markup; but underlining is sometimes used in documents in its
own right.
Underlines are sometimes used as a diacritic, to indicate that a
letter has a different pronunciation to its non-underlined form.
So underlines, in the content of text, serve as a substitute for, or
indicator of, emphasis that should more properly be provided by
italic (or bold).
Is there a browser that supports <u> but not <em>, <strong>, <i>, <b>?
The one use that I can imagine would be if attempting to reproduce a
typewritten document in its original format.
Andrew
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