EMP: Ãcole de Management de Paris (French: School of Management of Paris; Paris, France) EMP: Engineering, Math, Physics (various schools) EMP: Embedded Media Processing (computing) EMP: Emergency Management Planning (various organizations) EMP: Energy Master Plan (various organizations) EMP: Energy Medicine Practitioner (health program) EMP
At that time italic was only used for the lower case and not for capitals. In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting. Owing to the influence from calligraphy, italics normally slant slightly to the right. Italics are a way to emphasise key points in a printed text, or when quoting a speaker a way to show which words they stressed.
When the underscore is used for emphasis in this fashion, it is usually interpreted as indicating that the enclosed text is underlined (as opposed to being italicized or bold, which is indicated by /slashes/ or *asterisks*, respectively).