Re: Cleaning House

Murray Maloney:
> Will somebody help me out here? I don't know how I can be any clearer
> about fact that italic and bold are merely forms of emphasis,

They are phenomena of emphasis. They're not emphases themselves.

On a print-out you cannot distinguish a phrase italicised for some  
reason from a phrase emphasised through italics, at least not without  
taking the context into account. In markup you can.

> and therefore, <i> and <b> are synonyms for <em> and <strong>.

They aren't quite, although they're often perceived like that.