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From: "Halvard Johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: italics &c.
> On Aug 10, 2005, at 5:57 PM, Frederick Pollack wrote:
>
>> The words "complete," "protects," "energies," and "hurts" are supposed to
>> be italicized. -- I don't know why, when I try to send something
>> single-spaced, it appears double-spaced (and w/out italics).
>
> My guess is that you're cut and pasting MS Word documents into
> your mailer. If you'd put your cursor at the end of each line and
> right delete, the blank line would disappear. You might also
> try sending as a rich text file (rtf), which might also preserve the
> italics. If that doesn't work, you could inserts asterisks before
> and after words that should be in italics. Some folks use underlines
> (e.g. _italicize this_ ).
>
> Could be wrong, as usual.
>
> Hal
>
>Thanks, Hal. I am just pasting a Word file. It looks OK when I compose it
>but comes out double-spaced etc.
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