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From: barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Why do people put underscores there?
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Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 17:47:29 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul  7 17:47:29 1985
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> _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

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