Stops, or How to Punctuate

<h2><SPAN name="ITALICS" id="ITALICS"></SPAN>ITALICS</h2> <p><b>LXIII. Words to be specially emphasized may be put in italics. In writing, the substitute for italics is underlining.</b></p> <div class="blockquot"><p>What, it may well be asked, can the interests of the community be those of&mdash;I do not say <i>an</i> individual, but&mdash;<i>the</i> individual?</p> </div> <p>The voice can unmistakably indicate what are the emphatic words; but italics, only a feeble substitute, ought not to be used unless every other means of emphasizing fail. Many writers of authority have strongly, and very justly, condemned the too frequent use of them.</p> <p>Double underlining in letter-writing need not be here adverted to. If the person to whom one writes a letter is likely to read it without appreciation or care, one is entitled to adopt any means that will ensure attention. But if double under<span class='pagenum'><SPAN name="Page_77" id="Page_77"></SPAN></span>lining is allowable only on this ground, general rules are obviously of no use.</p> <p><b><SPAN name="LXIV" id="LXIV"></SPAN>LXIV. Words from a foreign language which have not become classical English words, are written in italics.</b></p> <div class="blockquot"><p>The slightest <i>double entendre</i> made him blush to the eyes.</p> <p>Knowledge of French is a <i>sine qu&acirc; non</i>.</p> </div> <p>When foreign words become English, they are no longer italicized. Among such words are: rationale, aide-de-camp, quartette, na&iuml;ve, libretto. It is often a matter of discretion to say whether a word is so far naturalized that it should be written in the ordinary way.</p> <p><b>LXV. Names of newspapers and magazines, and names of ships, are generally written in italics; as the <i>Times</i>, the <i>Fort-nightly Review</i>, the <i>Great Eastern</i>.</b></p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class='pagenum'><SPAN name="Page_78" id="Page_78"></SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />