What I didn’t know was that Mac OS X’s TextEdit program automatically breaks underlines before and after descenders. That way, you don’t get aesthetically displeasing line crossings on the letters. I learned a long time ago that professional typography calls for minimal use of underlining, and when you must underline, you should place the underlines by hand so that they break before and after descenders. But what’s interesting about it, to me, is how the underlining breaks around the descenders- those tails of the letters q, j, p, y, and g that "descend" below the baseline. Incidentally, it is set in Lucida Grande regular typeface. Notice anything interesting about the sentence in this screenshot? Yes, it contains every letter in the English latin alphabet.
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