Appendix:Underline

Translingual

Typographical usage

[underline]

1. Indicates emphasis.
2. (computing) Sometimes indicates a hyperlink.
3. (computing) In the text for an interface item, indicates that the underlined character combines with Alt to form a keyboard shortcut that activates that item.

   文件(F) (in Chinese) ― File

   • 2005 July, Maximum PC, number 7 (in English), Future US, Inc., →ISSN, page 55:

     Width: 720 pixels
     Height: 480 pixels

4. Used instead of italics.
   • 1961, Joseph Perry Ponte, “Introduction”, in Musica Disciplina: A Revised Text, Translation and Commentary, volume 1 (unpublished dissertation; in English), Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University, →OCLC, page xiv:

     It has been carelessly copied and contains many lapsus oculi: frequently a single word has been omitted, obviously through inattention; occasionally a line or two of the archetype has been skipped, so that completely separate sentences have been fused together; sometimes simple mis-readings occur.

   • 1975, Sue Helder Goliber, The Life and Times of Marguerite Durand: A Study in French Feminism (in English), Kent, Oh.: Kent State University, →OCLC, page 124:

     In 1919 the cry for political reform was taken up, the main issue being a change in voting procedure from the scrutin d'arrondissement to the scrutin de liste.

   • 1986, Gustavo Pellon, Julio Rodriguez-Luis, “Introduction”, in Upstarts, Wanderers or Swindlers: Anatomy of the Picaro: A Critical Anthology (in English), Amsterdam: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 18:

     Thus, in these new lands, the pícaro prospers and evolves through the centuries until he becomes an artist as in Joyce Carey's The Horse's Mouth or a free spirit and would-be revolutionary in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.

Chinese

Typographical usage

[underline]

1. (Chinese, dated in mainland China, still used in Taiwan and Hong Kong) Indicates a proper noun.