Re: [Docutils-users] Book titles

[David A. <da...@bo...>]

David Goodger <go...@py...> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> I'm writing a document with ReST, and I need to insert the titles of
>> several books.  Technically, book titles are supposed to be
>> underlined.
>
> According to whom?  

Some outdated reference I found on the web <wink>.

> *The Chicago Manual of Style*, which I use as my typographical
> bible, says:
>
>     Titles and subtitles of published books, ... are set in italics
>     when they are mentioned in the text or notes.
>
>     (14th edition, section 7.133)

You're right.  I found a more up-to-date reference after I posted.
Sorry for the line noise.

> If you want to indicate "book title" separately from "emphasis",
> which is perfectly valid, that's a different question.  Has to do
> with interpreted text.  There's already a related to-do list entry:
>
>   Perhaps the default implicit role for interpreted text could be
>   "title", as in, "title of a book".  It'd be a text-only reference,
>   no hyperlink.  Idea from Aahz' 2002-05-09 Doc-SIG post.

Eventually, there will be equivalents of every possible XML tag, won't
there <0.5 wink>?

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