fling wrote on 10/26/12 at 08:38:56:

Yes, seems so, maybe I'll have to close registrations again!

In general terms Bibs is quite right of course, and, not surprisingly, I'd no more dream of using underlining (iso italics) to, say, emphasise a word or phrase than any book publisher for whom I do work would. But what I have found underlining useful for is for marking the initial moves of variations or sub-variations in running text -- it makes them stand out much more clearly to the eye than italics would. Some would use bold for these purposes, but we editors hold religiously that only a barbarian would use bold for emphasis, or indeed for anything at all other than certain kinds of heading ...

So it'd be good to see underlining restored, but it's no big deal. Of course we could get sophisticated. Proper en- and em-rules would be a brilliant next feature, as would the possibility of adding accents, etc. to foreign words. Where might there be an end of it?

Michael Ayton wrote on 10/26/12 at 00:10:27:


Perhaps worth noting here that underlining is considered dead in print design. Was a typewriter thing.
Bold and italics now used only.

I've just noticed one problem: the sticky posts don't seem to be sticky any more! That is, those important posts at the top have gone back into the lower list - I've found a few but if any Moderators notice others that are missing please put them back!

Thanks for the heads up Tony! Good luck.