9.2.1 @emph{text} and @strong{text}

The @emph and @strong commands are for emphasis; @strong is stronger. In printed output, @emph produces italics and @strong produces bold.

For example,

     @strong{Caution:} @samp{rm * .[^.]*}
     removes @emph{all} files in the directory.

produces the following in printed output and HTML:

Caution: `rm * .[^.]*' removes all files in the directory.

and the following in Info:

     *Caution:* `rm * .[^.]*' removes _all_
     files in the directory.

The @strong command is seldom used except to mark what is, in effect, a typographical element, such as the word `Caution' in the preceding example.

In the Info output, @emph surrounds the text with underscores (`_'), and @strong puts asterisks around the text.

Caution: Do not use @strong with the word `Note'; Info will mistake the combination for a cross reference. (It's usually redundant, anyway.) Use a phrase such as Please notice or Caution instead, or the optional argument to @quotation—`Note' is allowable there.