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Originally Posted by Toxaris
That is part of my issue with <em> and <strong>. It is up to the parser to interpret it. The fact that they usually depict it as italic and bold does not mean they have to. That is why I rather use a CSS style or just <i> and <b>.
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But your book is not always being displayed visually; it might be being read out loud by a TTS system, for example. The whole point of semantic markup as opposed to stylistic markup is that it permits the parser to make the appropriate decisions for the display medium.