[Mediawiki-l] Rendering of italics

Sat Apr 23 13:44:18 UTC 2005

On Apr 23, 2005, at 5:07am, Brion Vibber wrote:

> Now, hypothetically we could spend a lot of time and effort trying to
> teach people not to use '' for anything but emphasis and tell people to
> use other markup explicitly, but that would be a losing battle.

One could also argue that emphasis is exactly what they are using it 
for. While one might disagree with how emphasis is often applied, 
editors don't use italics or bold because they want a word to blend 
into the background.

John Blumel