[Python-Dev] Italic text in the manual (original) (raw)

Mike Klaas mike.klaas at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 00:16:02 CEST 2007

On 3/29/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

Collin Winter schrieb:

> The docs for atexit in py3k [1] are mostly (though not all) in > italics; I can't figure out why, and I'd appreciate if anyone with > stronger latex-foo could take a look.

This is still the same error as in the trunk; the fix hasn't been forward-ported yet.

In the interest of expanding the general level of latex fu, the difference stems from \em version \emph: \em switches the current font to emphasized in the current scope, whereas \emph is a command that formats its argument emphasizedly.

Thus {\em ... } and \emph{...} achieve similar results, but \em{ ... } switches the top-level font, which is followed by a grouping {} (which likley does nothing).

-Mike

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