Subject: Re: bug#23798: 25.0.90; Underscore for emphasis in Info?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 05:42:55 +0300

> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 17:12:44 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
> 
> C-h i h n
> 
> Why are there underscores surrounding the text "please don't"?

That's how Info renders @emph.

> They don't cause that text to be rendered any differently.  Emacs has
> had faces for quite some time now.  Why not use a specific face for
> this?  Is this vestigial?  Does it really serve a purpose?

Because no one wrote code to implement that.