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Bold or italic are two way to emphasize a word. (The destinction between "strong" and "emphasis" seems quite arbitrary to me.) Yet, go around and change the bol
by norswap 16y ago
Bold or italic are two way to emphasize a word. (The destinction between "strong" and "emphasis" seems quite arbitrary to me.) Yet, go around and change the bold words in some person's text by italic words, and he will probably not be happy, yet the emphasis is still there.
Edit : hoho, got the same point as Daniel Newby above whitout even looking. If that's not some kind of proof..
- derefr 16y agoHowever, if you male the strong text red, and the emphasized text green, instead of typographically styling them at all, your audience will begin to understand fairly shortly if your work is text-heavy. In publishing, you underline words in your manuscript that you want to come out emphasized: nowadays, they do it with italics, but before, they did indeed just underline your text in the published copy.