Shortcuts for <em></em> and <strong><strong>?

[paperback]

I frequently use <em></em> in documents but there is no keyboard shortcut for it, nor for <strong></strong>.

I would like to see more shortcut options for html tags and even, perhaps, an option for the user to add additional icons for html tags to the toolbar.

[kovidgoyal]

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/snippets.html

and there is already an insert tag button on the toolbar to which you can add/remove tags to your hearts content.

[paperback]

I was hoping that there would be a shortcut like there is for <i>. Emphasis (<em>) is just as frequently used as italics (<i>), and, IMV, this would justify its own shortcut or even an optional icon on the toolbar.

Although emphasis and italics look the same, they have different meanings (em for emphasising speech, italics for book titles etc.) and, this may be important for accessibility and so on.

[DyckBook]

Originally Posted by paperback

I was hoping that there would be a shortcut like there is for <i>...

Not quite that short a cut, but as Kovid said there is an insert tag button on the editor toolbar that looks like <>. It allows you to add a tag of your choice such as "em". Once added, one click on the dropdown and one click on the tag of choice and the opening and closing tags with the cursor placed between them will be inserted. At which point CTL-V will paste text or just start typing. Admittedly not as quick as CTL-I or CTL-B, but still considerably faster than <em>....</em> or especially <strong>...</strong>.

All of that being said, I always prefer a keyboard shortcut to a mouse shortcut. Machine beats mammal every time.

[phossler]

Machine beats mammal every time.

[deback]

If they look the same and do the same thing (and readers won't know which one you used), why not just use <i> for all your emphasizing?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by deback

If they look the same and do the same thing (and readers won't know which one you used), why not just use <i> for all your emphasizing?

For myself, I use <i> and <em> for accessibility purposes. With most of text to speech programs I've played with, italics such as <i>HMS Ark Royal</i> would simply be read while emphasized words such as <em>STOP! THIEF!</em> will, generally, use a volume increase to emphasize those words. Much the same to <bold> and <strong>.

Not to mention one program I used that used bold for emphasis, that is <em> and <bold> were treated the same when displaying the text.