A question from a person who knows very little about such things (i.e., me):
Some books contain big chunks of text in italics that are not meant to be stressed. For instance, a novel might commence with a kind of prelude, all italicized, that could go on for several pages. Or a character's thoughts might be italicized, sometimes for a paragraph or more at a time. (I'm not advocating that anybody go wild with italics this way. I find such things a chore to read, and a temptation to skip.) Occasionally, in such expanses of italicized text, a word will emerge that is not in italics, to indicate that it should be stressed. How should this be coded so that a machine reader will emphasize it without changing the appearance of the text? If you enclose the word to be stressed in <em> tags, it will be italicized and appear indistinguishable from the text that surrounds it. If you enclose it in <strong> tags, it will be displayed in bold, instead of in a normal typeface (and I don't know if a machine reader would emphasize it, anyway). Can it be done?
Here a brief example, where the italics indicate a character's thoughts, and the word "not" should be stressed:
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Aha, so the cow did not jump over the moon!
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