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  2. Help:Text formatting - Wikipedia

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    It's just a short-cut combination of italic and the math font. It's used a lot in math, since all usual variables|math variables are italic and serif both . For folks not conversant with mathematical typesetting rules, it probably seems like fluff, even though for us inside mathematics, the ubiquitous use of an italic serif font for most (but ...

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    Generally, use only one of these styles at a time (do not italicize and quote, or quote and boldface, or italicize and boldface) for words-as-words purposes. Exceptionally, two styles can be combined for distinct purposes, e.g. a film title is italicized and it is also boldfaced in the lead sentence of the article on that film (see WP ...

  4. Help:Wikitext - Wikipedia

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    To italicize text, put two consecutive apostrophes on each side of it. Three apostrophes each side will bold the text. Five consecutive apostrophes on each side (two for italics plus three for bold) produces bold italics. Italic and bold formatting works correctly only within a single line.

  5. Help:Advanced text formatting - Wikipedia

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    Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of typeface styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing to produce typeset artwork in physical or digital form. The same block of text set with line-height 1.5 is easier to read: Typography is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type ...

  6. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Text formatting - Wikipedia

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    With regard to words that shouldn't be italicized (CMS lists the examples of croissant, banh mi, pasha, Weltanschauung, [2] kaiser, obscure, recherché, bourgeoisie, telenovela, anime, eros, agape, and mise en scène), they all follow this criterion well. However, some words that should be italicized also fit this criterion.

  7. Help:HTML in wikitext - Wikipedia

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    Some tags that resemble HTML are actually MediaWiki parser and extension tags, and so are actually wiki markup. HTML included in pages can be validated for HTML5 compliance by using validation. Note that some elements and attributes supported by MediaWiki and browsers have been deprecated by HTML5 and should no longer be used.

  8. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles of works - Wikipedia

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    Using such code in them pollutes the COinS metadata emitted by the templates, for use with reference management software. To italicize or boldface something in a title, use basic wikimarkup, e.g.: {{Cite journal |title=Gray wolf (''Canis lupus'') is a natural definitive host for ''Neospora caninum'' |date=...}}. It will be filtered out of the ...

  9. Template:Em - Wikipedia

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    HTML class(es) class: Name(s) of the class(es), separated by spaces, to be added to the HTML "class" attribute. String: optional: CSS formatting markup: style: CSS directives for formatting the text. Added to the HTML "style" attribute. String: optional: HTML unique identifier: id: A unique HTML identifier, which must start with an alphabetic ...