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-<p>In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them. It is the equivalent of prosodic stress in speech.</p>
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+<p>In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them. This may include text in <em>italics</em>, <strong>bold</strong>, <u>underlined</u> or <s>strikeout</s> words or whole paragraphs.</p>
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<p><em>Italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. Owing to the influence from calligraphy, italics normally slant slightly to the right. One manual of English usage described italics as "the print equivalent of underlining"; in other words, underscore in a manuscript directs a typesetter to use italic.</em></p>
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<p><u>Professional Western typesetting usually does not employ lines under letters for emphasis within running text, because it is considered too distracting.</u></p>
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<p><u>Underlining is, however, often used with typewriters, in handwriting and with some non-alphabetic scripts. It is also used for secondary emphasis, i.e. marks added by the reader and not the author.</u></p>
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