On 1/9/19 2:30 AM, Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote:
English use of italics on isolated words to disambiguate the reading
of some sentences is a convention. Everybody who does it, does it the
same way. Not supported in plain text.
German books from the Fraktur age used Antiqua for Latin and other
foreign terms. Definitely a convention that was rather universally
applied (in books at least). Not supported in plain text.
Aren't there printing conventions that indicate this type of
"contrastive stress" using letterspacing instead of font style? I'm
s u r e I've seen it in German and other Latin-written languages, and
also even occasionally in Hebrew, whose experiments with italics tend
not to be encouraging.
~mark
