@Lightwizard,
Lightwizard wrote:
If I can suggest something, when I find it absolutely necessary with some posters to stress something they are continually overlooking, or if I take a phrase in an article I've cut-and-pasted, I use italics and sometimes reedit it with the bold font. If it's a quote, I note that I've altered the text with italics and/or bold type. It's kind of a happy medium and keeps lines of text looking like newspaper banners. It's assertive but not aggressive.
Lightwizard wrote:
If I can suggest something, when I find it absolutely necessary with some posters to stress something they are continually overlooking, or if I take a phrase in an article I've cut-and-pasted, I use italics and sometimes reedit it with the bold font. If it's a quote, I note that I've altered the text with italics and/or bold type. It's kind of a happy medium and keeps lines of text looking like newspaper banners. It's assertive but not aggressive.
Lightwizard wrote:
If I can suggest something, when I find it absolutely necessary with some posters to stress something they are continually overlooking, or if I take a phrase in an article I've cut-and-pasted, I use italics and sometimes reedit it with the bold font. If it's a quote, I note that I've altered the text with italics and/or bold type. It's kind of a happy medium and keeps lines of text looking like newspaper banners. It's assertive but not aggressive.
I have done that, but as u know, I have not limited myself to that.
We occasionally debate matters in this forum that are controversial, to an emotional degree.
Sometimes, the posters become impassioned in their opinions of what is morally right or rong,
or in deciding the merits of competing political candidates, or of war and peace, etc.
I understand what u said about keeping it limited to
italics that are possibly
emboldened.
We do not always believe that in every case
bold italics will be sufficient to expressing
an important point -- meaning that bold italics
will succeed in attracting enuf attention.
We are, each of us, the architect of our own means of expression; as such, it behooves
each of us to build structures that will be strong and enduring. For those purposes,
we take interest in our choice of materials, that thay will suffice.
In other words, there is concern that
italics might be
too weak and too
ineffective
to accomplish their mission. U don 't wish to use tools or materials that are not
of sufficient strength to accomplish their purpose.
I feel strongly, that it is
NOT rong to erect a hierarchy of values
in one 's expressions be thay oral, or written.
Who among us woud condemn Lincoln if we discovered
that in his denunciation of slavery, he raised his voice
at points in his presentations that he deemed appropriate,
and that he waved his hands and arms, gesturing to convay
his meaning -- the same as use of facial expressions ??
Who among us woud condemn Churchill, if we found that he gave a speech
upon the occasion of Chamberlain 's pacifistic appeasement of Hitler,
wherein Churchill gave
emphasis to parts of his presentation that he deemed proper
to promote taking the necessary measures to resist the onslaught of National Socialism ?
I 'd be very pleased if we had the option of buying books
whose authors used size and color of font to express their own vu
of the hierarchy of values in their work. To those possibilities
cud be added other indicia of particular and special significance;
e.g. a square bracket, on the side of text, or a colored star,
with different colors signifying ranking of value.
I used black ink to signify trouble and
red ink for
good intellectual assets and
green to superaccentuate the good value.
It was successfully helpful, for my future reference.
When I was in college, I had a military science professor who waved
a small American Flag during his lectures, to emphasize particular points to be remembered.
English professors shoud tell their students to use colorful emfasis
and fonetic spelling in their writing. One of my tenants is an English professor.
Maybe I 'll integrate that as a requirement in his next lease.
David
