This tag is used for questions that are related to placing emphasis at certain points in a document by changing font face, shape, weight, or other properties in order to render the objects distinguishable from the surrounding context.
Questions tagged [emphasis]
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What is the difference between \em and \emph?
What is the difference between \emph{...} and {\em ...}?
When to use each of them?
jutky
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Should the p in p-value (probability value) use the math environment or \emph{}?
I usually use $p$-value but I was wondering if \emph{p}-value is the recommended way to typeset terms with a one or more italicized character?
(Edit: Similar cases include t-test, t-statistic and t-distribution where the italicized character may…
Chris
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Stop a bitwise-or in \emph from becoming a dash
I want to use a "|" in my \emph{}, like \emph{"Yes"|"No"}, but it changes the | to a --.
How do I stop this from happening?
sparticvs
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Make \emph{} look like Stackoverflow highlighting
How can I make \emph{} look exaclty like this StackExchange highlighting.
I like the highlighting from StackExchange forum family and would like to use it in my Latex document.
Sorry I can't put my question into words, so I can't google it myself.
Johannes
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Italicize all text in the body matching a pattern
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to have certain words in the document always in bold?
I have some old papers with a lot of references in it. I am converting them into LaTeX PDFs. I am not using any citation package here to style the references…
sriramn
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Highlight text with math signs
I need to highlight some text with the command \emph whose content is "valeurAop += analogRead(mesure_aop)" : the compilation gives me an error, I think it is due to the mathematical symbols.
I tried \emph{opvalue} $+= $ \emph{analogRead…
Nicolas
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Clean way of italicizing whole preface with \emph inside (which will de-italicize)
I would like to set a part of the LaTeX document in italics but with using \emph{...} for emphasizing inside. This is easy to do within single paragraph where \emph can be easily nested. But since \text@command is not \long, it does not extend to…
eudoxos
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Text definitions - \textit or \emph?
If I want mark definition in text, should I use \textit or \emph. For example: A \textit{graph} is ...
I know, it is not the same.
ZYX
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How do I mark text as never to be emphasized?
An \emph inside another cancels the emphasis. But what if I want to make
sure something is never emphasized, even if the surrounding emphasis is
removed? \textrm doesn't turn off ItalicFeatures defined for the font
family.
Toothrot
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