Library of Formatting Examples:Boldface/00A

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A HISTORY OF ROME TO 565 A. D.[** not bold; all-caps, not small]
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CHAPTER I[** not bold; all-caps, not small-caps]
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THE GEOGRAPHY OF ITALY[** not bold; heading lines are marked as ]
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Italy, ribbed by the Apennines, girdled by the Alps and the sea,
juts out like a "long pier-head" from Europe towards the northern
coast of Africa. It includes two regions of widely differing physical

Overview of boldface

All of the rules for Italics apply to Boldface. The Guidelines on Bold are simple: Basically, if it looks bold, tag it. If in doubt whether text is actually bold (rather than a print anomaly such as over-inking) ask in the Project Discussion for clarification. Other than the items mentioned below such as headings, this applies to inline text as well as 'stand-alone' text.

Headings

Headings and sub-headings often are printed in fonts or sizes that make them appear to be darker than normal text, but we do not mark them as bold unless other parts of the same lines clearly are lighter (or unless specially instructed by the Project Manager). And that's why this first example begins with three lines that are not marked as bold: they are headings.