In polite society, underlined text is not a thing.
I'm with you wrt slash for italics, but sometimes you also just want to write a slash... how would you do that? Underscores are good because you never really want to display them...
I'm with you wrt slash for italics, but sometimes you also just want to write a slash... how would you do that? Underscores are good because you never really want to display them...
I agree, however, than my original naive idea of using slashes was not so good. Obviously some practice gives a better understanding of the problem, and nowadays I see it differently. The slash is too common in written language; it's actually a good thing that unintended italics are not introduced after writing some trivial slashed term in a text, such as "he/him".