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

Andreas Jaeger aj at suse.com
Sun Nov 9 15:16:49 UTC 2014


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.
======================================================================

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

Andreas
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