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   Snidely to All   
   Re: Underlining   
   10 Aug 21 16:46:36   
   
   From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, Questor queried:   
   > On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 13:59:21 -0700 (PDT), Roger House <61rroger@gmail.com>   
   > wrote:   
   >> When you, (I'm not referring to any particular person, I'm using "you"   
   >> generically), are typing, like in word or word perfect for example, on a   
   >> computer or a word processing machine, is there any way to fully underline,   
   >> *NOT* underscore, but underline, a word like you can/used to be able to do   
   >> on a typewriter?   
   >   
   > I am failing to grasp the distinction between "underlining" and   
   > "underscoring." They are considered the same thing in my mind, unless you are   
   > literally going to cut or crease (score) the paper.   
      
   Roger doesn't want an underscore /character/, he wants a word or phrase   
   _underlined_.   
      
   /dps "in the raw score"   
      
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   The presence of this syntax results from the fact that SQLite is really   
   a Tcl extension that has escaped into the wild.   
      
      
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