Do you know when we invented underline for emphasis?
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Oh, but this is all for editing, right? I wonder when it crossed over to general use.
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I don’t think it appears obvious to me this was well known except the publishing word?
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I saw it. This seems someone who understands the relationship between underlining and italics, ergo someone in the printing know?
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Oh, that feels like the paper editor forgot to change “underline” to “italicize” in text? :·)
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Haha. Yeah. Typewriters made underlines more common, I bet. But I think handwritten underlines would be key here.
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Oh, here’s how I understand this: The writer underlined the word and then referred to the underline…
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…the typesetter (correctly) italicized underlined text as per convention, but didn’t update the reference.
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Yeah. If I had a time machine I’d spend it on solving mysteries like these. :·)
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I saw a Polish computer magazine once with a huge image and a diagonal DO NOT LET THIS GO TO PRINT on top of it.
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That’d be cool to find more examples of.
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