Underline

Underline part in typography to the forms of typestyle. Usually it refers to the adequacy of text with a line. This award will be used in all forms of representation, soaked in the word processing but increasingly other awards such as the italics. In a figurative sense, it also speaks of the underlining of a statement (eg, " He emphasized in his speech the importance of the statement ... "). Accordingly, the underlined words are usually emphasized when reading aloud.

Traditional use

Underlined is usually used in handwritten manuscripts, in documents for personal use no typography rules must be observed. On the typewriter underlining one of the few award opportunities ( including non- matrix printers) can be implemented at a reasonable cost for devices with a fixed predetermined character set.

The typestyle is technically implemented by the underscore (for use as a single character qv). In the simplest models, the carriage by hand must be moved back and for underlining text can be overprinted with the underscore character. However, most models know the underlining in recognition mode, before each regular characters, the underscore is preceded printed as "Conditional dead key ". However, since a lower ( visible ) can always occur offset by the impact pressure at the ribbon, the ribbon must be in any case, for both characters moved.

Besides underlining belongs to the correction character. Are underlined in the draft printing word or phrase, whose award is to be presented differently in the final print. The change (eg, semi-bold, font, spationieren ) is noted on the leaf margin.

Use in text processing

Virtually all authors that deal with modern typography agree that the underlining in text processing should generally be avoided.

The disadvantages of an underlined font are in the way of implementation:

• Characters with descenders intersect with the underscore line or touch them;
• When Underline all parts of the text, the line gets the undesirable character of a line of paper, so that, inter alia, the attention is not drawn to typestyle, but on the line screen of text lines;
• The underlined text could be mistaken for a web link.

Today's forms of representation with graphics-capable systems offer sufficient alternative distinction forms. Are usual and a.Kursivschrift, bold ( also partially), VERSALSCHRIFT, CAPITALS or highlighting with color or a second font. Underline was " really only useful and acceptable when other options of the award are not met. "

If you want to meet today's typography conventions nevertheless, it is true there is consensus that it should be doing, be exceptions, but not how a proper underlining should be implemented. In particular, if all the letters with descenders want to omit or whether the line should always be set so low that it is below the letters with descenders, is the subject of discussion in Internet forums.

Implementation

There is to underline the following:

Line styles for special purposes

For some uses partially special line styles are preferred. For example, calculation results (particularly with handwritten calculations) or invoice totals are underlined with a double line. Underlining with a dotted line is an official correction marks by which a falsely strikethrough text is subsequently declared to be valid again.