benihana - 10:47 am on Jul 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

I agree it does generally look untidy, but playing devils advocate

I dont see it as being hugely different to using <strong> or <em> to emphasise part of the sentence, and im sure, as a speaker, your client will be quite used to raising and lowering his voice, tempo and pitch etc to make a point, add emphasis or hold peoples interest :)

<added> that said, i would have thought in the example it should be the 'widget makers' bit that woulds have the greatest importance and therefore emphasis </added>