I agree with Richard Combs...? You should create your special char tag to 
account for the effect you get by applying two more general char tags.? But I'd 
go a step further.? Don't name it Italic_Bold, or anything like that.? In fact, 
you should never name your char tags (or any other tags) by the formatting 
effect.? Stop and think of the *category* that formatting implies for the 
reader.? Give that category a name, and use that as the name for your tag.? If 
you can't come up with such a name, then maybe you should question the use of 
the formatting...? Maybe it doesn't impart any information after all.? 

The benefit of this approach is that you are implicitly declaring the structure 
of your document.? If the day ever comes that you want to map your docs to 
explicit structure, you have the information already in place.? And it just 
makes for better document engineering.? As you have seen, even Maker can't 
automate its processes based on your combinations of formats.? Suppose you want 
to write a script that manages precisely these bits of text...? Well, using a 
single, well named format makes that much easier to accomplish.? 

cud
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