A system for representing bird taxonomy

The T_EX system is rarely used outside the author's practice, and even the L^aT_EX system derived from it is not much use for Web-based presentation.

The important functional capability is to italicize biological names properly. Accordingly, the author envisions a system where the current T_EX-markup fields in the various input and output files will be replaced by fields that use underbar (_) characters to represent the start and end of italicized text. Some examples:

From text marked up in this way, it is easy to derive the T_EX version or to mark it up with HTML <i>…</i> tags.