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0 pointseviks2y ago0 comments

Did they teach you in high school the relevance of that history? Does the fact that it'd been traditionally used as a substitute mean you can't use underlining now, so it should not event exist in markup?

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kazinator2y ago

It's pretty obvious that underlining is something that rarely appears in print. It is mainly an annotation device: something added to finished print, by hand.

When was the last time you saw underlines in a book that weren't added by a previous reader?

Underlines are bad typography that should be used sparingly, if ever.

eviksOP2y ago

It's even more obvious that we're not talking about print, but a markup language anyone can outside of book publishing. So why do you want to prevent a "previous reader" from using said annotation device for the little note he's creating/editing?

kazinator2y ago

Sorry, how did we get here from explaining the intuition behind _..._ denoting italics?

eviksOP2y ago

We got here because you mentioned all the irrelevant stuff your learned in high school, and when I pointed that out, you mentioned some more, now about the whole underline, which I used as an example of how there is no intuition behind _ since that intuition is "taken" by underlines (that's why you needed to criticize underlines)

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kazinator2y ago

It's pretty obvious that underlining is something that rarely appears in print. It is mainly an annotation device: something added to finished print, by hand.

When was the last time you saw underlines in a book that weren't added by a previous reader?

Underlines are bad typography that should be used sparingly, if ever.

eviksOP2y ago

kazinator2y ago

Sorry, how did we get here from explaining the intuition behind _..._ denoting italics?

eviksOP2y ago

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