emphasis — Emphasized text
emphasis (db.emphasis) ::=
abbrevaccelacronymaltanchorannotationapplicationauthorbibliorefcitationcitebiblioidciterefentrycitetitleclassnamecodecommandcomputeroutputconstantcorefdatabasedateeditoremailemphasis (db.emphasis)envarerrorcodeerrornameerrortexterrortypeexceptionnamefilenamefirsttermfootnotefootnoterefforeignphrasefunctionglosstermguibuttonguiiconguilabelguimenuguimenuitemguisubmenuhardwarehtml:buttonhtml:fieldsethtml:inputhtml:labelhtml:selecthtml:textareaindexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)initializerinlineequationinlinemediaobjectinterfacenamekeycapkeycodekeycombokeysymlinkliteralmarkupmenuchoicemethodnamemodifiermousebuttonnonterminalolinkooclassooexceptionoointerfaceoptionoptionalorgnamepackageparameterpersonnamephrase (db.phrase)productnameproductnumberpromptpropertyquoteremarkreplaceablereturnvalueshortcutsubscriptsuperscriptsymbolsystemitemtagtermdeftokentrademarktypeuriuserinputvarnamewordaswordxrefEmphasis provides a method for indicating that certain text
should be stressed in some way.
Formatted inline.
Emphasized text is traditionally presented in italics or boldface.
A Role attribute of 
bold or
strong is often used to generate boldface, if italics is the default presentation.
Emphasis is often used wherever its typographic
presentation is desired, even when other markup might theoretically 
be more appropriate.
These elements contain emphasis: bridgehead, citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm, foreignphrase, funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, html:button, html:label, html:legend, link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry.
The following elements occur in emphasis: text, abbrev, accel, acronym, alt, anchor, annotation, application, author, biblioref, citation, citebiblioid, citerefentry, citetitle, classname, code, command, computeroutput, constant, coref, database, date, editor, email, emphasis (db.emphasis), envar, errorcode, errorname, errortext, errortype, exceptionname, filename, firstterm, footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase, function, glossterm, guibutton, guiicon, guilabel, guimenu, guimenuitem, guisubmenu, hardware, html:button, html:fieldset, html:input, html:label, html:select, html:textarea, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), initializer, inlineequation, inlinemediaobject, interfacename, keycap, keycode, keycombo, keysym, link, literal, markup, menuchoice, methodname, modifier, mousebutton, nonterminal, olink, ooclass, ooexception, oointerface, option, optional, orgname, package, parameter, personname, phrase (db.phrase), productname, productnumber, prompt, property, quote, remark, replaceable, returnvalue, shortcut, subscript, superscript, symbol, systemitem, tag, termdef, token, trademark, type, uri, userinput, varname, wordasword, xref.
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example emphasis</title> <para>The <emphasis>most</emphasis> important example of this phenomenon occurs in A. Nonymous's book <citetitle>Power Snacking</citetitle>. </para> </article>
The most important example of this phenomenon occurs in A. Nonymous's book Power Snacking.