Re: [docbook] Re: WELCOME to docbook@lists.oasis-open.org

[tom_schr@web.de]

Hi Thomas,

> quoting <http://www.ibiblio.org/godoy/sgml/docbook/howto/writing-docbook.html>:
> 
> "a. The text can be enphasized in a few ways. The most common ways are
> italics and bold. DocBook, however, supports only italics. The use of
> bold requires additional settings on the stylesheet used."
> 
> If DocBook supports italics, how do I do it?  Certainly I can do
> <phrase role="italic">...</phrase>, but the above seems to be implying
> that that's not necessary?

The usual method is to use <emphasis>Your italic text</emphasis>. 
If you need bold text, insert the attribute role="strong".

Tom


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