Scott Crom
January 16th, 2006, 06:56 PM
Johnny--
I don't personally feel the need for an in-house style sheet.
But if the group does, then I call your attention to the fact
that the underscore is not a replacement for quotation marks, ",
which all standard e-mail that I know of can handle (except for
the fancier curly quotation marks where opening and closing are
different). The underscore is used instead to indicate italics,
which aren't available on bare-bones ASCII or DOS. But in
Dixonary, italics are often used to indicate etymologies or
source languages.
I would therefore prefer that we stick with the underscore, which
I do not regard as redundant.
Scott
I don't personally feel the need for an in-house style sheet.
But if the group does, then I call your attention to the fact
that the underscore is not a replacement for quotation marks, ",
which all standard e-mail that I know of can handle (except for
the fancier curly quotation marks where opening and closing are
different). The underscore is used instead to indicate italics,
which aren't available on bare-bones ASCII or DOS. But in
Dixonary, italics are often used to indicate etymologies or
source languages.
I would therefore prefer that we stick with the underscore, which
I do not regard as redundant.
Scott