[TxMt] LaTeX italic command (apple-i)

[Charilaos Skiadas]

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