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  2. Emphasis (typography) - Wikipedia

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    Emphasis is provided by using italics, used for key words, stage directions and the names of characters, and capitalization of key words. There are many designs. With both italics and boldface, the emphasis is correctly achieved by swapping into a different font of the same family; for example by replacing body text in Arial with its bold or ...

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Text formatting

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    Generally, use only one of these styles at a time (do not italicize and quote, or quote and boldface, or italicize and boldface) for words-as-words purposes. Exceptionally, two styles can be combined for distinct purposes, e.g. a film title is italicized and it is also boldfaced in the lead sentence of the article on that film (see WP ...

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Quotation marks may also be used for shorter material to avoid confusion, such as when italics are already heavily used in the page for another purpose (e.g., for many non-English words and phrases). Mentioning (to discuss grammar, wording, punctuation, etc.) is different from quoting (in which something is usually expressed on behalf of a ...

  5. Wikipedia:Article titles - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A Wikipedia article title is the large heading displayed above the article's content, and the basis for the article's page name and URL. [a] The title indicates what the article is about and distinguishes it from other articles. [b] The title may simply be the name (or a name) of the subject of the article, or, if the article topic has no ...

  6. Closed captioning - Wikipedia

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    Words in italics indicate when a word is stressed or emphasized and when real world names are quoted. Italics and bold type are only supported by EIA-608. Some North American providers use this for narrated dialogue. Some providers use this for off-screen dialogue. Italics are also applied when a word is spoken in a foreign language.

  7. Natural-born-citizen clause (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The use of the term "natural born" was not without precedent. An early recorded example was in Calvin's Case (1608), which ruled that a person born in any place subject to the King of England (which at the time included Scotland and Ireland as separate kingdoms, and formerly many parts of France) was a natural born subject of England and therefore entitled to bring a civil suit in an English ...

  8. Case citation - Wikipedia

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    The Style of Cause is italicized as in all other countries and the party names are separated by v (English) or c (French). Prior to 1984 the appellant party would always be named first. However, since then case names do not switch order when the case is appealed. [12] Undisclosed parties to a case are represented by initials (e.g., R v RDS).

  9. Quotation marks in English - Wikipedia

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    Quotation marks in English. In English writing, quotation marks or inverted commas, also known informally as quotes, talking marks, [ 1 ][ 2 ] speech marks, [ 3 ] quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify it as a quotation, direct speech or a literal title or name.