On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 20:33:37 +0100
Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Rik Kabel <mailto:cont...@rik.users.panix.com>
> > 18. Februar 2018 um 20:22
> > On 2018-02-18 12:07, Alan Braslau wrote:  
> >> On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:58:40 -0500
> >> Rik Kabel<cont...@rik.users.panix.com>  wrote:
> >>  
> >>> Indeed, it is hard to imagine a BibTeX file devoid of such markup.
> >>> How would one indicate the (reverse) emphasis of a quoted book
> >>> title, as in /The Cambridge Companion to /Ulysses, except by
> >>> indicating the emphasis of "Ulysses" and letting ConTeXt reverse
> >>> it when emphasizing the complete title? (ยง4.21 of the APA2013
> >>> spec requires this.)  
> >> title={The Cambridge Companion to {\em Ulysses}},  
> >
> > I would think that the proper form would be
> >
> >     title={The Cambridge Companion to {\it Ulysses}}
> >
> > since \em could be, and is by default, slanted, but the standard
> > here calls for italic.
> >  
> 1. How many fonts provides a italic *and* slanted style.
> 
> 2. You change for the style for \em.
> >
> > That brings up the question of when one should use \em, \emph, and 
> > \emphasized, all of which appear in font-emp.mkvi. The wiki and
> > other documentation provides no guidance.
> >  
> \starttext
> 
> normal {\em emphasized}
> 
> {\it normal {\em emphasized}}
> 
> \stoptext

Indeed, \it would *not* be the appropriate command to be used
(neither in LaTeX, I believe). As Wolgang's example (and cont-enp.pdf)
shows, \em does *exactly* what is needed.

Alan
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