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Originally Posted by fbrzvnrnd
What I'm doing is create real ebooks. Italic and bold are a analogic way to try to add information to paper. Paper, remember. We are not working on paper and typewriter, we are working with computer, so if we give computer information of data we are tagging, we are going to build real ebook, not a "look at me mama, I'm a book". This is semantic, add information to the text we are build to use it for make other things or to allow other people to use it. We formalize because we provide information to the computer that needs this. More formalize, more we can do with our ebooks.
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So, a novel cannot be a real ebook? In novels italic is used a lot for different reasons. Not because it is on
paper, but because it gives you additional information. It could clarify it is a dream sequence, thoughts, emphasis, etc. I can say the same sentence in different ways and the meaning will change each time. If you hear it, you will know it. However, if you read it, you would need to guess the meaning. That is just one example where italic or bold or some other discriminator is needed, regardless if it is a paper book or an electronic book.
Sorry, you comment is nonsense. Even in normal text books italic and bold have many purposes. I cannot remember any text book from my study where italic and bold were not used.