RE: underlining

Subject: RE: underlining
From: Doug Grossman <Doug -dot- Grossman -at- sas -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 13:29:15 -0400

Coming from a graphics background, I have one thing to say: Underlining is
evil.

It's just plain ugly. It was fine when all you had on a typewriter was all
caps (another ugly text treatment) and underline for emphasis. But from a
typographical standpoint, it's hideous.

We only use italics for emphasis in the flow of the text. Not underline, not
bold, not all caps, not a different font, only italics. I say flow of the
text, because there are places in the docs that we use bold, but not for
empaphisizing a word in a paragraph.

In our online help we use a different color to indicate a hyperlink, rather
than underline.

steve shepard....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................





Agree on all counts, regarding underlining in general. The only thing that we do differently is that we use the hyperlink text feature of Word (blue for unused, purple for used) to indicate "clickable" text. I don't think it's all that bad in those circumstances; I actually think it looks kinda cool, assuming it's not overused.

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