Warp wrote:
> In printed media cursive is the de-facto
> method for emphasis. Sometimes underlining as well.

Actually, underlining was used in proof reading to indicate the underlined 
word should be italicized. Since you couldn't by hand easily overwrite a 
word with italics. That's where the "underline is italic" convention came from.

I'm not sure what they did for boldface, tho. :-)

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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