Name
emphasis — Emphasized text
Synopsis
emphasis (db.emphasis) ::= (text | Bibliography inlines | Error inlines | Graphic inlines | GUI inlines | Indexing inlines | Keyboard inlines | Linking inlines | Markup inlines | Math inlines | Object-oriented programming inlines | Operating system inlines | Product inlines | Programming inlines | Publishing inlines | Technical inlines | Ubiquitous inlines)*
Attribute synopsis
Description
An emphasis
element indicates that certain text
should be stressed in some way. This pattern defines the
emphasis
element with a very limited content
model.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline. Emphasized text is traditionally presented in
italics or boldface. A role
attribute of bold
or strong
is
often used to generate boldface, if italics is the default
presentation.
An emphasis
is often used wherever its
typographic presentation is desired, even when other markup might
theoretically be more appropriate.
See Also
abbrev
, acronym
, emphasis
(db._emphasis), foreignphrase
, phrase
, quote
, wordasword
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example emphasis</title> <para>The <emphasis>most</emphasis> important example of this phenomenon occurs in A. Nonymous's book <citetitle>Power Snacking</citetitle>. </para> </article>
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