On Apr 23, 2005, at 5:07am, Brion Vibber wrote:
Now, hypothetically we could spend a lot of time and
effort trying to
teach people not to use '' for anything but emphasis and tell people to
use other markup explicitly, but that would be a losing battle.
One could also argue that emphasis is exactly what they are using it
for. While one might disagree with how emphasis is often applied,
editors don't use italics or bold because they want a word to blend
into the background.
John Blumel