[OpenStack-docs] Proposal: bold/italics in style guides

Anne Gentle anne at openstack.org
Sun Nov 9 19:56:40 UTC 2014


On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com> wrote:

> On Friday, a few folks from infra team sat together and discussed the
> style guide for the infra-manual (see
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/kilo-infra-manual ) as a followup to
> reviewing : https://review.openstack.org/#/c/107303/  and
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/107360/ . I took the action item to
> cover the problems as an enhancement to our style guide.
>
> Looking up the IBM style guide, I didn't found any explicit mentioning
> of this - so wrote up the following myself:
>
> ======================================================================
> For documentation, we use semantic markup and let the toolchain format
> the text in a consistent and appropriate way. Thus, every occurence of
> a term, like a variable, should use the same markup.  The writing
> should be clear and markup consistent and thus a reader should easily
> know why a certain term is using a specific markup like boldface or
> italics. Explicit use of bold or italics is in general wrong.
>

While it's currently considered wrong for our current toolchain, how do
people using RST do mark up semantically?


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>
> Please tell me whether it's accurate and specific enough for this case,
>
> Andreas
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