On 2011-02-24 12:05 , Ann Sanfedele wrote:
Later - in the early 60's I used an IBM electric typewriter with a ball head, and you could change typeface by changing the little balls the type was on. as I recall, we used underlining to indicate what should be in italics if you were printing something in the newspaper, or a magazine or a book. And yes, you had to back up and type in the underlines under the words.
though i learned to type on an IBM Selectric, my high school had only Courier and Elite balls -- two sizes, no italic -- and typing was taught with little of the nuance _typesetting_ involves; it was later, using Runoff and Scribe on a mainframe computer (early markup tools similar to Unix roff/troff), that it became clearer that underlining of foreign phrases, book titles, etc., was the exact analogue of italics in typeset books, and that if i were to submit a typescript for publication, my underlined material would be set in italics;
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