Hi there,

is there any particular reason that within a LaTeX document, highlighting some text, and hitting apple-i would put the text in \emph rather than \textit

Cheers, Sam Aaron

is there any particular reason that you hijack a thread and destroy threaded views? if you want to open up a new thread, copy the mail adress and write a new mail. therefore a new message-id is created. Thanks in advance. :)

Oops, sorry.

I didn't realise that emails had a message id. If they do, then another important question is why doesn't Apple's Mail use them. It threads emails by subject which breaks an awful lot of times. I have thought to myself a few times... if only emails had thread ids...

...you learn a new thing every day. :-)

Sam

On Nov 5, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Sam Aaron wrote:

Oops, sorry.

I didn't realise that emails had a message id. If they do, then another important question is why doesn't Apple's Mail use them. It threads emails by subject which breaks an awful lot of times. I have thought to myself a few times... if only emails had thread ids...

Well its threading is not perfect, but it does work decently, like in this case. I use Mail.app also, and your message showed up threaded under the WebPreview message.

Anyway, to answer your question, it's because most of the times when you want italic, you really want \emph, i.e. you want the text to show differently than the surrounding text. \emph does the right thing if you are for instance inside a definition environment, where the regular text is highlighted.

In sort, it's because in LaTeX you want to emphasize structure over appearance, and that's what \emph does.

Btw, when I use "you" here, I mean it in the generic sense. YMMV. I personally always use ctrl-shift-w instead.

...you learn a new thing every day. :-)

Sam

Haris

On Nov 5, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Sam Aaron wrote:

Could you spare the time to explain the difference between ctrl- shift-w and command-i? Or is one just an alias to the other.

ctrl-shift-w is the general "wrap in command" command. So you select some text, and press ctrl-shift-w, and the text is wrapped like so: \emph{some text} with the difference that the \emph is highlighted. So you would type what you want there for the command name, and press tab to proceed. cmd-i on the other hand just surrounds it in \emph, end of story.

Sam

Haris