Inline Markup

Font Formatting Roles

These roles control how the font of the enclosed text renders.

To learn more about when to use these roles, see the style guide section on Text Formatting.

• To strongly emphasize or bold text, use two asterisks on both sides of the text.

  **bold**

• To emphasize or italicize text, use one asterisk on both sides of the text.

  *italic*

• To specify monospace text, use two backticks on both sides of the text.

  ``monospace``

Use the following guidelines to avoid errors in font formatting roles:

• Don't start or end markup with whitespace.

  Use	Avoid
  **bold code**	** bold code**

• Don't apply more than one type of markup to text.

  Use	Avoid
  ``bold code``	**``bold code``**

• When you apply a text formatting role to the middle of a word, use a backslash and space character on both sides of the formatted text.

  Use	Avoid
  this is *four* words thisis\ *one*\ word	thisis*one*word