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Double emphasis, such as italics and boldface, "italics in quotation marks", or italics and an exclamation point!, is unnecessary. Underlining is used in typewriting and handwriting to represent italic type. Generally, do not underline text or it may be confused with links on a web page.
Italics are principally used in academic writing for texts that have been referenced, and for foreign language words. Similarly capitals and underlining have particular meanings, and are rarely used in formal writing for emphasis.
Use {{Italic title}} to italicize the part of the title before the first parenthesis. Use {{Italic disambiguation}} to italicize the part of the title in the parenthesis. Use the {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} magic word or {{Italic title|string=}} template for titles with a mix of italic and roman text, as at List of Sex and the City episodes and The Hustler.
• Italicize font. • Underline words. • Choose a text color. • Choose a background text color. • Change your emails format. • Add emoticons. • Find and replace text, clear formatting, or add the time. • Insert a saved image. • Insert a hyperlink.
Use italics for the scientific names of plants, animals, and all other organisms except viruses at the genus level and below (italicize Panthera leo and Retroviridae, but not Felidae). The hybrid sign is not italicized (Rosa × damascena), nor is the "connecting term" required in three-part botanical names (Rosa gallica subsp. officinalis).
One manual of English usage described italics as "the print equivalent of underlining"; in other words, underscore in a manuscript directs a typesetter to use italic. [5] In fonts which do not have true italics, oblique type may be used instead. The difference between true italics and oblique type is that true italics have some letterforms ...
An underscore or underline is a line drawn under a segment of text. In proofreading , underscoring is a convention that says "set this text in italic type ", traditionally used on manuscript or typescript as an instruction to the printer .
Do not underline words; it conflicts with the convention of underlining hyperlinks. Use italics instead. It doesn’t need a whole page to itself. --Rob Kennedy 05:14, 26 September 2006 (UTC) Sure its covered elsewhere, a little bit in italics, a little bit in bold, a little bit in capitalization. Thats exactly why it needs to have its own article.