Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!ut-sally!barnett From: barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Why do people put underscores there? Message-ID: <2284@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 17:47:29 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.2284 Posted: Sun Jul 7 17:47:29 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Jul-85 07:27:36 EDT References: <3126@teklabs.UUCP> <2418@pegasus.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 14 >> > _1984_ (why do people put underscores there ?) The proper treatment of film titles in print is the same as that for book titles; italicized if possible, and underlined if not. Since you can't do either on most terminals, leading and trailing underscores seems to be a reasonable facsimile. Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712 -- barnett@ut-sally.ARPA, barnett@ut-sally.UUCP, {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!barnett