Enliven your words with inline styling
Emphasizing
With BLUEPHRASE, your words are always first and foremost, so sentences and paragraphs need no special treatment. When phrases need emphasis, surround them with styling doppelmarks.
Styling doppelmarks are two consecutive less-than and greater-than characters << ... >> , which surround the words that need emphasis. Here are a few examples:
Budapest has two sides: the city of <<i Buda>> on the hilly west bank of the Danube, and the city of <<i Pest>> on the prairies to the east.
Buda may have the palace, but Pest houses the dazzling <<b neo-Gothic Hungarian parliament>> with its superlative interior.
The ramparts of the old <<u Citadella fortress>> provide stunning vistas over the Danube.
<<q Visit Buda but stay in Pest>> is the best advice for visitors.
Styling notation
These are the inline-styling semantax available in BLUEPHRASE:
| semantax | usage |
|---|---|
| q | Quotation marks |
| b | Bold |
| i | Italics |
| u | Underline |
| s | Strikethrough |
| q | Short quote |
| em | Stressed emphasis |
| sup | Superscript, for footnote references |
| sub | Subscript, for chemical formulas |
| kbd | Represents keyboard input, shown in a monospaced fontface |
| var | A mathematical variable |
| bdo | Reverse the reading direction of the enclosed text |
| bdi | Isolate the right-to-left text from its surrounding left-to-right text. |
| ins | A section of text added in a subsequent draft of the manuscript |
| del | A section of text removed from a previous draft of the manuscript |
| span | All purpose |
| samp | Sample output from a computer program, shown in a monospaced fontface |
| mark | Marked or highlighted text |
| abbr | Used with acronyms, where the "title" attribute contains its definition, and on hover, it is shown as a tooltip |
| code | Represents computer source code, shown in a monospaced fontface |
| data | A wrapper to associate a machine-readable value with corresponding text |
| time | A date or time in the Gregorian calendar |
| small | "The small print", or disclaimers; one fontsize smaller than the enclosing block |
| strong | Strong importance |
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