Hi, Be warned, this entire reply does not answer any questions ;-) Jano Kula wrote:
Not always. A year ago a graphic designer used it a quiet creative way in the book of interviews. All the questions or persons were underlined, often hyphenated. It was an experiment and it worked. By the way, some of the caption and figure alingment Mojca asked for was used there also. I've put few sample pages here (done in LaTeX):
http://web.iol.cz/kula/sample.pdf (1,5MB).
Perhaps I am way too old-fashioned, but that looks rather ugly to me.
So not for emphasis but as a graphic element it is -- and will be -- used.
IMO, graphic element == emphasis Backgrounds, colorization, larger or different typeface, indentation, additional vertical space, they are all tools to draw extra attention to particular bits of the text. Greetings, Taco