We make use of some markup to indicate italics and other ways to display text.
Words that writers would like italicized like this should mark up those words (and punctuation marks) <i>like this</i>. This is for the benefit of those marking the articles up using XML, who will be instructed to see to it that exactly what is between the <i> and </i> tags is italicized. As a rule, we will prefer italicization for emphasis.
Other marks can be used to indicate how text should be presented, including bold, <b>like this</b>; underlining, <u>like this</u>; and SMALL CAPS, <sc>LIKE THIS</sc>.
Generally speaking, we can accept HTML markup.
(XML coders please note: eventually, we will not, in fact, be using presentational tags in the XML versions of our articles; you can think of this as just a way for writers and copyeditors to communicate their intentions to the XML markup crew. This policy might change later, when we've implemented a DTD and stylesheet. At present, we're simply trying to generate articles.)