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Originally Posted by bookman156
I mean I italicise or emphasise to call out a distinction. I italicise a book title so the whole of the title can be seen at once and I don't have to wonder where it ends and where the text as such carries on. Equally, if I emphasise a word in speech I mean to mimic just the way it would be said or to give some alternative meaning by the emphasis that wouldn't be there if it wasn't emphasised. But in both cases what has been done is simply distinguishing one textual item from its textual background. The purpose is inherent in each case from the context provided by the words and does not need to be invisibly second-guessed as a matter of routine by an ebook production company.
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Why you call out a distinction? Because you want to formalize a data inserted in your content. Why a title is often big and centered? Because it is its historical formalization. For the paper. In digital we can formalize more that those that can be seen, because we do not use paper, but we have a microprocessor that can work on those datas. Of course you can make do with a single index and some hyperlink in notes. Or go beyond.