Serious writing (in the Latin script) needs italics

[Katarina Eriksson]

Thomas M <thomas5max at gmail.com> wrote:

> Other writing systems may have their
> own way of conveying emphasis, but for the Latin script it's italics.
>

Other ways of conveying emphasis include: (in no particular order)

* Capitalization: if you're writing in a language which doesn't capitalize
all nouns.
* All-uppercase: mostly interpreted as SHOUTING.
* Letter-spacing: which looks  c h o p p y  and I don't know how a screen
reader would interpret that.
* Extra space around the word: awkward to write if your input device
insists to convert the first space into a period, like some smart phones
do. Same with  extra  space  between  all  the  words  in a sequence of
words.
* Extra space around a sentence: looks like the convention from texts with
monospace fonts where you make the transition between sentences more
visible by adding an extra space.
* One word per line: interrupts the flow of the text.
(I might have forgotten one more)

None of these can be automatically converted to italics and it's the author
who determines which notation will fit best for each document within the
constraints of the medium.

-- 
Katarina

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