<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:34 AM, José Lopes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jose.lopes@ist.utl.pt" target="_blank">jose.lopes@ist.utl.pt</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Why do you say that _italics_ and *italics* are semantically
different?<br>
What do you mean?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The parenthetical hinted at it:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">(I tend to use the former for titles and such)</div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div>There's a convention at work here, namely that italicized book titles and similar are often underlined in plain text — and in plain text without backspaces this is represented as leading and trailing _. So there's a semantic (i.e. content) difference even though the generated markup is the same.</div>
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