Andrew Cunningham wrote:
Underlying, bold text, interletter spacing, colour change, font style
change all are used to apply meaning in various ways. Not sure why
italic is special in this sense.
Italic is uniquely different from these in that the meaning has been
well-established in our writi
( I appreciate that UTC meetings are going on - I too will be traveling
a bit over the next couple of weeks, so may not respond quickly. )
Support for marking 'italic' in plain text - however it's done - would
certainly require changes in text processing. That would also be the
case for some o
James Kass wrote:
Concerns about statefulness in plain-text exist. Treating "italic" as
an opening/closing "punctuation" may help get around such concerns.
IIRC, it was proposed that the Egyptian cartouche be handled that way.
I do appreciate the technical issues surrounding statefulness and
I've been alerted to this thread by a friend, so just rejoined in order
to respond. I'm currently doing research into italics.
Some of the confusion and disagreement about italics centers around
whether it is typographic markup or textual content. Both historically
and currently italics can be
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