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Old 03-08-2017, 05:39 AM   #76
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What I'm saying is that <em> & <strong> is no different than using <span> with a class. In fact, <i> & <b> are also no different since you can change them via CSS.

In the example GrannyGrump gave, I've never seen any commercial eBook use <em> & <strong> for anything other than italics and bold. When text is being changed, it's done via a <span>.

Yes, I know some prefer to use <em> & <strong> and that's fine. But technically, no different.
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Old 03-08-2017, 06:25 AM   #77
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VISUALLY no different. But Semantically, and for TTS, and perhaps other use-cases, --- yes, they ARE technically different.

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I've never seen any commercial eBook use <em> & <strong> for anything other than italics and bold.
Not all texts published in the epub format come from the commercial book selling sector, increasing numbers come from the not-for-profit sector (.gov, .org, .edu etc) or they're public-domain documents from the private sector. The number of non-commercial-book epub publications may now exceed the number of commercial epub/kindle publications. As has been the case for paper, pdf etc for years.

My observation is that some of these works are much more carefully coded that just about any commercial book I've seen, especially fictional works. Next time I come across one that uses <em> for semantic italics and <i> for typographical italics I'll send you the link. I think I've seen them in ECB and/or EIB publications.

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... I've never seen any commercial eBook use <em> & <strong> for anything other than italics and bold.
Maybe you had so far no special attentions for these nuances!

Source: Brennendes Geheimnis/Stefan Zweig (a fine/perfect designed ¿commercial? ePub)

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Aus dem <em class="antiqua">vis-à-vis</em> war ein Nebeneinander geworden, aus der Bekanntschaft eine Freundschaft.
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.antiqua {
    font-family: "Courier New", monospace;
    font-size: smaller;
    font-style: normal
    }

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