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From: Austin Frank <austin.frank@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: exporting typefaces
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Carsten Dominik wrote:

> I have never even once in my lifetime applied two different styles to
> a piece of text.  What is the application of this?

Looking through a few O'Reilly books on my shelf, I see that different
books use constant-width bold (<b><pre>text</pre></b>) and
constant-width italics (<i><pre>text</pre></i>) to indicate where a user
should enter input in example code.

I've been writing a tutorial for use in my lab, and have wanted the
ability to typographically distinguish between optional and required
parts of our in-house scripting language.  I'd like to say

    All *bold* terms are properties of a certain part.  All
    /*italic bold*/ terms are required properties of that part.

I don't know if this request is common enough to warrant inclusion, or
how much of a pain it would be to add to the parser, but that's the
first example off the top of my head of where I'd use this kind of
formatting.

Thanks,
/au

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