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Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 13:12:25 EDT
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I can shed no light on most of Hovy's questions, but I think I can
claim priority on the use of underscores as delimiters:

	He's reading _Moby Dick._ He says it's _very_ boring.

An earlier format uses underscores throughout; e.g.,

	I need a copy of _The_Art_of_Computer_Programming_, Volume 4.

Personally I prefer *asterisks* for emphasis and _underscores_ for
other applications of italics.

By the way, recently my three-year-old son told me excitedly that there
was a kitty on my home terminal.  Actually it was a C-R (carriage-return)
glyph, with the C slightly higher than the R and running into it like a
cat's tail.  Can anybody think of a use for such "kitties"?
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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