2. Text Styling (bold, code, italic, strong)

2.1. Purpose

Provide elements for (hinting) the appearance of text fonts and font styles/face. Although the DTD should in principle specify no styling, it appears that these elements are very handy in practice. Again they are just suggestions to the XSLT stylesheet and CSS file who ultimately decides on the font, font face and font style/decoration.

2.2. Elements

tag
purpose
bold
suggest boldface
code
suggest constant width (usually Courier)
italic
suggest italic
strong
emphasized text

2.3. Example

2.3.1. Construct

115: <para> 116: <bold>This is in bold</bold>. <break/> 117: <code>This is in code</code>. <break/> 118: <italic>This is in italic</italic>. <break/> 119: <strong>This is in strong</strong>. <break/> 120: </para>

2.3.2. Result

This is in bold.
This is in code.
This is in italic.
This is in strong.