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Thread #82318   Message #1509157
Posted By: Don Firth
24-Jun-05 - 09:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: No Dinos in the bible? wtf....
Subject: RE: BS: No Dinos in the bible? wtf....
Technical aside:

Angle bracket "<" followed by a "u" followed by the other angle bracket, ">". Cancel it by doing the same thing again, but put a "/"in front of the "u". Voila! Underline. Same story with italics (replace the "u" with an "i"). Or boldface (replace with a "b"). A visual way of making it possible to use the kind of emphasis that you might use in actual speech.

Easy enough with HTML code, but if you use a lot of underling, italics, and boldface in a manuscript you're submitting for publication, they might get a little unhappy with you. Drives type-setters nuts! 'Course computerizing publication may change all that, but too many different type-faces can make something look like a ransom note (letters cut out of a magazine and pasted to a piece of paper).

Don Firth