Gisbert Amm wrote:
> [...] you could simply use some
> non-semantic inline markup like <emphasis></emphasis> to get the genus
> and species names italic.
I *no way* can or should you rely on getting italic text for emphasized
text. You simply can not express this wish in DocBook. Luckily. DocBook
is a doument markup language, not a layout, presentation, design, style,
or graphics language.
I also don't think he wants to emphasize the words he mentioned.
Sure you can state that all emphasized text should be rendered in
italicized glyphs, but you do that in something like XSL (XSLT
generating XSLFO), or in CSSheets styling (X)HTML documents generated
from the DocBook sources.
Original poster:
"I want to code some genus & species names in italic format."
Perhaps try
DBX:
<phrase role="genusname">...
<phrase role="speciesname">...
(X)HTML:
<span class="phrase role-genusname">...
<span class="phrase role-speciesname">...
CSS:
.role-genusname,
.role-speciesname,
{font-style: italic}
Tobi
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