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# emphasis

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emphasis — Emphasized text

## Synopsis

### Mixed Content Model

    emphasis ::=
    (#PCDATA|footnoteref|xref|biblioref|abbrev|acronym|citation|
     citerefentry|citetitle|citebiblioid|emphasis|firstterm|
     foreignphrase|glossterm|termdef|footnote|phrase|orgname|quote|
     trademark|wordasword|personname|link|olink|ulink|action|
     application|classname|methodname|interfacename|exceptionname|
     ooclass|oointerface|ooexception|package|command|computeroutput|
     database|email|envar|errorcode|errorname|errortype|errortext|
     filename|function|guibutton|guiicon|guilabel|guimenu|guimenuitem|
     guisubmenu|hardware|interface|keycap|keycode|keycombo|keysym|
     literal|code|constant|markup|medialabel|menuchoice|mousebutton|
     option|optional|parameter|prompt|property|replaceable|
     returnvalue|sgmltag|structfield|structname|symbol|systemitem|uri|
     token|type|userinput|varname|nonterminal|anchor|author|
     authorinitials|corpauthor|corpcredit|modespec|othercredit|
     productname|productnumber|revhistory|remark|subscript|
     superscript|inlinegraphic|inlinemediaobject|inlineequation|
     synopsis|cmdsynopsis|funcsynopsis|classsynopsis|fieldsynopsis|
     constructorsynopsis|destructorsynopsis|methodsynopsis|indexterm|
     beginpage)*

### Attributes

Common attributes

## Description

`Emphasis` provides a method for indicating that certain text should be stressed in some way.

### 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.

`Emphasis` is often used wherever its typographic presentation is desired, even when other markup might theoretically be more appropriate.

### Future Changes

The `InterfaceDefinition` element will be discarded in DocBook V4.0. It will no longer be available in the content model of this element.

### Parents

These elements contain emphasis: `abbrev`, `ackno`, `acronym`, `application`, `artpagenums`, `attribution`, `authorinitials`, `bibliocoverage`, `biblioid`, `bibliomisc`, `bibliorelation`, `bibliosource`, `bridgehead`, `citation`, `citebiblioid`, `citetitle`, `city`, `collabname`, `confdates`, `confnum`, `confsponsor`, `conftitle`, `contractnum`, `contractsponsor`, `contrib`, `corpauthor`, `corpcredit`, `corpname`, `country`, `date`, `edition`, `email`, `emphasis`, `entry`, `fax`, `firstname`, `firstterm`, `foreignphrase`, `glosssee`, `glossseealso`, `glossterm`, `holder`, `honorific`, `invpartnumber`, `isbn`, `issn`, `issuenum`, `jobtitle`, `label`, `lineage`, `lineannotation`, `link`, `literallayout`, `lotentry`, `manvolnum`, `mathphrase`, `member`, `modespec`, `msgaud`, `olink`, `orgdiv`, `orgname`, `otheraddr`, `othername`, `pagenums`, `para`, `phone`, `phrase`, `pob`, `postcode`, `primary`, `primaryie`, `productname`, `productnumber`, `programlisting`, `pubdate`, `publishername`, `pubsnumber`, `quote`, `refentrytitle`, `refmiscinfo`, `refpurpose`, `releaseinfo`, `remark`, `revnumber`, `revremark`, `screen`, `screeninfo`, `secondary`, `secondaryie`, `see`, `seealso`, `seealsoie`, `seeie`, `seg`, `segtitle`, `seriesvolnums`, `shortaffil`, `simpara`, `state`, `street`, `subscript`, `subtitle`, `superscript`, `surname`, `synopsis`, `td`, `term`, `termdef`, `tertiary`, `tertiaryie`, `th`, `title`, `titleabbrev`, `tocback`, `tocentry`, `tocfront`, `trademark`, `ulink`, `volumenum`, `wordasword`, `year`.

### Children

The following elements occur in emphasis: `abbrev`, `acronym`, `action`, `anchor`, `application`, `author`, `authorinitials`, `beginpage`, `biblioref`, `citation`, `citebiblioid`, `citerefentry`, `citetitle`, `classname`, `classsynopsis`, `cmdsynopsis`, `code`, `command`, `computeroutput`, `constant`, `constructorsynopsis`, `corpauthor`, `corpcredit`, `database`, `destructorsynopsis`, `email`, `emphasis`, `envar`, `errorcode`, `errorname`, `errortext`, `errortype`, `exceptionname`, `fieldsynopsis`, `filename`, `firstterm`, `footnote`, `footnoteref`, `foreignphrase`, `funcsynopsis`, `function`, `glossterm`, `guibutton`, `guiicon`, `guilabel`, `guimenu`, `guimenuitem`, `guisubmenu`, `hardware`, `indexterm`, `inlineequation`, `inlinegraphic`, `inlinemediaobject`, `interface`, `interfacename`, `keycap`, `keycode`, `keycombo`, `keysym`, `link`, `literal`, `markup`, `medialabel`, `menuchoice`, `methodname`, `methodsynopsis`, `modespec`, `mousebutton`, `nonterminal`, `olink`, `ooclass`, `ooexception`, `oointerface`, `option`, `optional`, `orgname`, `othercredit`, `package`, `parameter`, `personname`, `phrase`, `productname`, `productnumber`, `prompt`, `property`, `quote`, `remark`, `replaceable`, `returnvalue`, `revhistory`, `sgmltag`, `structfield`, `structname`, `subscript`, `superscript`, `symbol`, `synopsis`, `systemitem`, `termdef`, `token`, `trademark`, `type`, `ulink`, `uri`, `userinput`, `varname`, `wordasword`, `xref`.

## See Also

`abbrev`, `acronym`, `foreignphrase`, `phrase`, `quote`, `wordasword`.

## Examples

    <!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
              "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
    <para>
    The <emphasis>most</emphasis> important example of this
    phenomenon occurs in A. Nonymous's book
    <citetitle>Power Snacking</citetitle>.
    </para>

The most important example of this phenomenon occurs in A. Nonymous's book Power Snacking.

For additional examples, see also `index`, `programlistingco`, `type`.

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