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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Mark Corbett Wilson <markcorbettwilson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Typo
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Mark Corbett Wilson wrote:

> On the FreeBSD Handbook Preface page (
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book-preface.html)
> under Typographic Conventions, shouldn't the *Bold* sentence read; "A *bold*
> font is used for applications, commands, and keys."?

Given that we use semantic markup which does not guarantee any 
particular style of rendering, it should probably be less specific. 
Just showing examples is probably enough.