Bold Text

Text displayed in bold, useful for example in footnotes (see Apparatus Note).

Syntax

Any number of Unicode characters enclosed by curly brackets {…} preceded by the command \b (bold).

Overview

Notation	Conceptual AST	Paper Output
`\b{𝑆×𝑁}`	`Strong(𝑆×𝑁)`	`𝑆×𝑁`

𝑆 = any sign (Unicode character) ∉ STOP_SET (cf. Technical Catalogue of Symbols) otherwise preceded by the escape character \.
𝑁 = number of characters (represented by char or digits).

Examples

Notation	Paper Output
`\b{abc}`	abc

EpiDoc Outputs

Notation	EpiDoc (XML)
`\b{abc}`	`<ab> <hi rend="bold">abc</hi> </ab>`

Structural Analysis (Conceptual AST)

Notation	AST
`\b{abc}`	`Strong Plain("abc")`