Yeah, that's probably a safer approach. One could of course imagine some kind of hybrid and parsing in the form of *very* or /very/ explicit terms. Maybe this is orthogonal to the other discussion we are having... Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Cisco Systems Tel: +1 408-527-8972 Mobile: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: ole@xxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj Skype: organdemo On Wed, 16 May 2012, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > On 5/16/12 12:26 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: > > > > And of course if we had a slightly richer publication format we could > > use, oh, say, underline, bold, italics and maybe even a special font > > for normative terms, but I guess I am dreaming decades ahead... > > Although I too dream the impossible dream, I would prefer not to trust > in formatting to enforce the semantic distinction in this instance. > > Peter >