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Double emphasis, such as italics and boldface, "italics in quotation marks", or italics and an exclamation point!, is unnecessary. Underlining is used in typewriting and handwriting to represent italic type. Generally, do not underline text or it may be confused with links on a web page. [f]
Use {{Italic title}} to italicize the part of the title before the first parenthesis. Use {{Italic disambiguation}} to italicize the part of the title in the parenthesis. Use the {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} magic word or {{Italic title|string=}} template for titles with a mix of italic and roman text, as at List of Sex and the City episodes and The Hustler.
In proofreading, underlining (or underscoring) is a convention that says "set this text in italic type", traditionally used on manuscript or typescript as an instruction to the printer. Its use to add emphasis in modern documents is a deprecated practice. [ 13 ]
Alternative #4 (italics) has the additional disadvantage of being ambiguous without added quote marks (e.g. Medieval Criticism, Science and the World vs. Medieval Criticism, Science and the World). But the quotation marks in the first case would be superfluous if we're capitalizing, and they aren't creative works, but multi-party events/activities.
• Underline words. • Choose a text color. • Choose a background text color. • Change your emails format. • Add emoticons. • Find and replace text, clear formatting, or add the time. • Insert a saved image. • Insert a hyperlink.
Italic and bold formatting works correctly only within a single line. To reverse this effect where it has been automatically applied, use {} and {}. For text as small caps, use the template {}. Small chunks of source code within a line of normal text. Code is displayed in a monospace font.
Well, in formal writing, you should use italics/underlining, and Wikipedia is formal writing. - A Man In Bl♟ck ( conspire | past ops ) 00:15, 27 November 2005 (UTC) [ reply ] Italics are normally used to differentiate between tiles and normal text in a block paragraph.
Formatted text has its genesis in the pre-computer use of underscoring to embolden passages in typewritten manuscripts.In the first interactive systems of early computer technology, underlining was not possible, and users made up for this lack (and the lack of formatting in ASCII) by using certain symbols as substitutes.