on Christian Editing Services:

I learned to type back in the Dark Ages, when we were taught touch typing on mechanical typewriters with a single font and a single font colour (unless you were lucky enough to have a typewriter that could use a two-tone black and red ribbon). Using italics or other typography was a distant dream.

The only typographic effects were USING CAPITAL LETTERS FOR HEADINGS or Using Capitalisation and Underlining for Subheadings. Sometimes we might use underlining in a sentence for emphasis. But that was discouraged as Mrs Yates said it made our typing look untidy.

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