> However, I think it is a sign of stronger writing if an author is able
to convey their meaning without resorting to what's essentially metadata
in their text. Use syntax, word choice, and punctuation to express your intent!
This makes absolutely no sense.
What's the difference between regular letters and letters that have diacritics?
What's the difference between capitals and lowercase? What about Hebrew
Vowels? Are all those "metadata" also?
Italics conveys data itself.
Italics is part of the writing system. It's not "metadata"
It's literally no different from using punctuation, or capitals.
Christian Seibold
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On Monday, November 9th, 2020 at 6:31 PM, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 6:46 PM Philip Linde <linde.philip at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The /italics/ style has the unfortunate side effect of producing false
>> positives for quite plausible Unix paths, e.g. /etc/.
>
> Such markup should really only be recognized if there is whitespace or
the beginning of the line before it and whitespace, the end of the line,
or sentence-ending punctuation after it. One advantage of _ is that it is
not normally used in running text.
>
>> This has never
>> been a problem in the settings I use this style of implying typography
>> (mostly IRC) because the input isn't typically transformed and is
>> presented as written
>
> There are IRC clients that interpret it.
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 6:52 PM acdw <acdw at acdw.net> wrote:
>
>> However, I think it is a sign of stronger writing if an author is able
to convey their meaning without resorting to what's essentially metadata
in their text. Use syntax, word choice, and punctuation to express your intent!
>
> Contexts where that doesn't work, from WP (and yes, I'm being pedantic):
>
> 1) Titles of books, movies, magazines, and other stand-alone works.
>
> 2) Scientific names of plants and animals.
>
> 3) Terms being introduced for the first time.
>
> 4) In narrative, the thoughts of a character.
>
> 5) Words being used as examples of themselves. ("The word _the_ is a
definite article.")
>
> 6) Names of ships.
>
> John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
> When I'm stuck in something boring where reading would be impossible or
> rude, I often set up math problems for myself and solve them as a way
> to pass the time. --John Jenkins
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