I should probably have sent my reply in an HTML email so my message would be unambiguous. Let me try again. At the dawn of Project Gutenberg, during a period lost to the mists of time, if someone encountered "The *italic* word" in a book, they would have typed "The ITALIC word" into the digital version. Eventually it became obvious that this was a bad way to mark up italics because under that scheme there was no unambiguous way to mark up "The *italic* CAPITAL word". Unambiguous encoding is a goal of many of the people here, so this was resolved by moving to other forms of markup, including using underscores to represent italics. On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Keith J. Schultz <schultzk@uni-trier.de> wrote:
Sparr,
ALLOW, me to explain THAT Upper Case can be used for emphasis, yet it requires no mark up! YET, emphasis need not always have to be mark up as italic. _Also, the use of underscore can be used for other stylistic means. _Yet, semantics and style vary from author to author.
regards Keith.
P.S. nothing italic in the above!! ;-)))
Am 12.10.2011 um 23:39 schrieb Sparr:
They don't require markup. But if they exist, then you can't use uppercase AS markup.
That is, you can take "The _italic_ word" and mark it up as ""The ITALIC word"", as was the very original tradition, but that fails when you try to mark up "The _italic_ CAPITAL word".
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Keith J. Schultz <schultzk@uni-trier.de> wrote:
Excuse Me, but are UPPER CASE letters actually formatting that need be marked up.
On Tue, October 11, 2011 2:39 pm, James Adcock wrote:
...It quickly became apparent that at least emphasis needed to be indicated and so it was decided that italicized text would be indicated in UPPER CASE. Unfortunately, people began to discover that there were books which contained upper case text which was not intended as emphasis...