Quotation Marks

[nq:1]I have been using too many quotation marks for emphasis. What are proper ways of expressing emphasis when italics or bold print are not appropriate?[/nq]
Is this with respect to real-life or on-line writing?

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[nq:1]I have been using too many quotation marks for emphasis. What are proper ways of expressing emphasis when italics or bold print are not appropriate? Thanks for your help. Walter The Happy Iconoclast www.rationality.net -[/nq]
/Traditionally/ italics have been indicated in newsgroups like /this/. And this is bold.
You will find that MS Word has got this bold tradition built in

[nq:1]I have been using too many quotation marks for emphasis. What are proper ways of expressing emphasis when italics or bold print are not appropriate?[/nq]
By "not appropriate" do you mean things like plain-text email, in which you cannot directly express them, or do you mean passages of text in which, for some reason, they would not be wanted?
If the former, you can use this for itali

Clarification: I was not referring to anything web-related. My question pertains to quotation marks when I try to emphasize words or short phrases in philosophical or political essays.

Walter
The Happy Iconoclast www.rationality.net
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[nq:1]Clarification: I was not referring to anything web-related. My question pertains to quotation marks when I try to emphasize words or short phrases in philosophical or political essays.[/nq]
Italics are the most usual graphic means of indicating emphasis; why would their use be inappropriate in your case?

Odysseus

[nq:1]Clarification: I was not referring to anything web-related. My question pertains to quotation marks when I try to emphasize words or short phrases in philosophical or political essays.[/nq]
DO NOT USE QUOTATION MARKS FOR EMPHASIS!
Apologies for shouting, but it seemed a useful way of illustrating how to emphasize on the Internet. If italics were available, that's what I'd use, rather

[nq:2]What are proper ways of expressing emphasis when italics or ... for your help. Walter The Happy Iconoclast www.rationality.net -[/nq]
[nq:1]/Traditionally/ italics have been indicated in newsgroups like /this/. And this is bold.[/nq]
In many newsreaders (at least in my Mac newsreader), the above actually is translated into bold and italic.
to clarify, if you want to make a

[nq:1]I have been using too many quotation marks for emphasis. What are proper ways of expressing emphasis when italics or bold print are not appropriate? Thanks for your help.[/nq]
Quotation marks and bold print should not be used for emphasis.

Carefully structured syntax and italics are the tools of choice for expressing your emphasis.
Darrz

[nq:2]/Traditionally/ italics have been indicated in newsgroups like /this/.And this is bold.[/nq]
[nq:1]In many newsreaders (at least in my Mac newsreader), the above actually is translated into bold and italic. to clarify, ... the "/" slash character. If you want to make a word bold, frame it with the "*" asterisk character -YJ[/nq]
I hadn't thought of that confusion.

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