VI.C.iii. ITALICS AND OTHER PRESENTATIONAL MARKUP.

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.)