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Originally Posted by icallaci
How many ebooks actually use both <i> and <em> in the same book? Maybe I haven't been paying attention but it seems that either one or the other is used, but not both. So even if TTS software can make a distinction, it doesn't matter, at least currently. I'm curious if anyone has seen both forms used in one ebook.
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There are books in the wild that have them....but not many. My guess is that this stems partly from the fact that this is a relatively recent change and the number of books produced since the change is still small compared to books produced up to the time of the change. Mostly it stems from the fact that <i> and <b> were deprecated in favor of <strong> and <em> so publishers either did one or the other. Later, mostly due to accessibility reasons, TPTB un-deprecated <i> and <b> and instead clarified the semantic difference and usage of one over the other. So the relatively low number of books that use both properly can be explained with the saying: "You can't teach an old dog new tricks." and "people don't like to change unless they have to"...