Am 14.01.2007 um 19:20 schrieb Charilaos Skiadas:
In short, it has happened a relatively long time ago, and it happened because most of us used \emph to emphasize text, which is what one usually associates with italics. \emph is better for that purpose since it will show something in roman if the surrounding is italic. Of course YMMV, but all the people I asked at the moment agreed with this change.
Thanks! I will take a closer look at \emph -- maybe it is time to change my habits, now that I know why earlier tests resulted in underlined text ... ;)
Chris