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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
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Subject: Re: World's best word processor
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Date: 10 Jul 89 17:32:40 GMT
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|me.  Better than {\em...} (which by the way, who out there who doesn't
|know TeX thinks that "emphasized" is a good description for italics?
|Sounds like it should be bold or shadow), better than the original
|command for WP, and as good as the Manuscript combo above.

\em is actually a LaTeXism. The reason it is \em is because when
you are already in \em mode (italics), another nested \em gets
you roman again.

Some people like WYSIWYG, some people prefer the abstraction
batch formatters like TeX and troff give you.  Pick you favourite
religion.