Re: DOCBOOK: Marking Up Taxonomic Names

[Nigel Hardy <nwh@aber.ac.uk>]

Mike Taylor wrote:

>Then I wondered about <foreignphrase>, but first that's not really
>quite accurate, and second, the Processing Expectations section in the
>book just says "ForeignPrases are _often_ given special typographical
>treatment, such as italics" (emphasis added) which isn't good enough.
>  
>
This seems quite correct to me. These names are in italics because they 
are foreign and, if the output mechanism cannot handle italics, some 
other mechanism may be used as a fall back (such as underlining as we 
did in the days of mechanical typewriters).

I do it regularly.

Nigel

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