Library of Formatting Examples:Boldface/01A

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Mason of Virginia, disapproved of the Constitution and refused
to attach their signatures.

<b>Ratification of the Constitution.</b>--Before adjourning, the
convention resolved to send the draft of the Constitution
to Congress with the request that it should transmit the

Mixed boldface and regular text

Other text on the same line is not boldface, so we mark this.

Complete and incomplete sentences

It's a "complete sentence," so the period goes inside. The em-dash goes outside the markup.