The appearance thing is a good point. I'm usually one to argue for conciseness (concisity?) but I do agree that the extra space for the sake of meaning is valuable.
About the velvet example though: I was prepared to argue that the quote marks were more acceptable because of the universality (we learned that in junior high--to avoid italics except to indicate titles of publications, movies, etc.) but then when I got to thinking about web writing I realized that I'm probably wrong now on that point. Screen readers can pronounce a word differently on hitting an [em] tag (I shudder to think of what gets lost with the [i] tags still in use!) but I'm not sure what they do when hitting quote marks. I should look into that.
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Date: 2004-07-05 09:56 am (UTC)About the velvet example though: I was prepared to argue that the quote marks were more acceptable because of the universality (we learned that in junior high--to avoid italics except to indicate titles of publications, movies, etc.) but then when I got to thinking about web writing I realized that I'm probably wrong now on that point. Screen readers can pronounce a word differently on hitting an [em] tag (I shudder to think of what gets lost with the [i] tags still in use!) but I'm not sure what they do when hitting quote marks. I should look into that.