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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>It is also quite common now for
underline to be used for emphasis in Greek where the Greek typeface being
employed is already sloping (notably the Porson Greek used for many decades
by OUP for its editions of classical authors), and therefore there is no
'italic' available. (But traditionally underline is frowned on for
aesthetic reasons and at OUP we used to letter-space Porson Greek for
emphasis, in imitation of the traditional 'gesperrt' German convention
[traditional German typography tended to avoid italic
altogether].)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>But where underlining is needed, both
'plain' TeX and LaTeX users have the excellent SOUL package available, where the
thickness of the underline rule is customizable (and if desired variable in
accordance with the point-size since it can be expressed as a percentage of an
em). I think that is more likely to produce the most satisfactory results
in any given case.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>John</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=dave.walden.family@gmail.com
href="mailto:dave.walden.family@gmail.com">Dave Walden</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=xetex@tug.org
href="mailto:xetex@tug.org">Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other
platforms</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 16, 2009 4:24
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [XeTeX] Underline thickness
and position for Type1</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Pander <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:pander@users.sourceforge.net">pander@users.sourceforge.net</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">I
think several real world applications of underline exist </BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV> </DIV></DIV>Here are a couple: I am using underlines in a
book I'm reproducing with LaTeX where the book was originally typed on a
typewriting using underlines instead of italics, and I am trying to make the
reproduced book look like the original did (I'm also using a [proportional]
typewritter font to mimic the typewriter look). I have also used
underlines for italics where I was reproducing a blackboard example in a book,
and an underline was used on the
blackboard.<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>