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Posted by Michelle Steiner on 10/17/88 11:36
In article <ghQuf.94981$J11.2074264@wagner.videotron.net>,
NRen2k5 <napsterneorenegade@hotmail.com> wrote:
> *Italic
> */adj./
>
> 1. Of or relating to ancient Italy or its peoples or cultures.
> 2. Of or relating to the branch of the Indo-European language family
> that includes Latin, Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, and the Romance
> languages.
> 3. *italic* Of or being a style of printing type patterned on a
> Renaissance script with the letters slanting to the right: This
> sentence is printed in italic type.
>
> /n./
>
> 1. The Italic branch of Indo-European.
> 2. Italic print or typeface. Often used in the plural.
>
> (Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language,
> Fourth Edition)
What is your point? In plain text, where there are no italics available
(e.g., a typewriter or a text-based medium like usenet), underlining is
used to represent italics. This has already been explained to you.
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