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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.
Five consecutive apostrophes on each side (two for italics plus three for bold) produces bold italics. Italic and bold formatting works correctly only within a single line. To reverse this effect where it has been automatically applied, use {{ nobold }} and {{ noitalic }} .
• Italicize font. • 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.
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.
MLA Style Manual, formerly titled MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing in its second (1998) and third edition (2008), was an academic style guide by the United States–based Modern Language Association of America (MLA) first published in 1985. MLA announced in April 2015 that the publication would be discontinued: the third ...
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.