Re: Concerning MAILPREP in XYWWWEB115.

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 Again, many thanks.

 Concerning MDIT and MDUL, I would use _ for both, and I would
 not bother with MDBO. MDBO is not used very much in academic
 writing. As for MDBU, even less. So I would only be concerned
 with MDIT and occasionally with MDUL, but only very occasionally.
 As I understand it underlining signifed italics in the days of
 typewriters. So MDIT covers well over 90% of the cases, I
 would imagine.

 More important at the moment is getting accented letters. If I
 can get that to work, I'll be a happy camper.

 Again, thanks for the help.

 M.W. Poirier

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On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Robert Holmgren wrote:

> Not at all. He's my favorite politician. He should be italicized -- although
> perhaps only a tad, since he already _is_ Italian. Look, I understand the
> convention. I use it too. But let me ask you: if you change MDIT to "_",
> what are you going to do with MDUL? Programmers like to employ logical,
> encompassing constructs -- airtight so bugs don't slip in between the cracks.
> My advice is: use the CV command I mentioned earlier, before you MAILPREP.
> Pre-Stack it in STARTUP.INT, so you don't have to remember it or reconstruct it
> every time you need it.
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