On 5/9/18 22:41, David G. Johnston wrote:
> I don't recall this being mentioned before; I just noticed that in v9.6
> and earlier docs the placeholders for identifiers/expressions/etc are
> boldfaced and italic. In v10 and devel they are just italic.
>
> The boldface does seem to help improve readability for me.
They are meant to be italic only. I believe making replaceable text
italic is a wide-spread convention.
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