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Originally Posted by Quoth
The Underline is certainly a typewriter thing and should be rarely if ever used in fiction. There might be some use for it, but I can't think of it.
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In old novels, like the ones on Project Gutenberg, there are often letters that the characters write to each other. Sometimes the book even says that the letter was handwritten but in the printed book they'll change fonts within the letter; e.g., using small caps for the writer's signature. Whenever I redo the formatting for a PG book I set the letters in italics since it's vaguely sort of handwritten looking (and I don't embed fonts). Whenever the PG version has italics in the body of the letter (not the address or whatever) I switch to underline.