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9 Marking Text, Words and Phrases
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In Texinfo, you can mark words and phrases in a variety of ways.  The
Texinfo formatters use this information to determine how to highlight
the text.  You can specify, for example, whether a word or phrase is a
defining occurrence, a metasyntactic variable, or a symbol used in a
program.  Also, you can emphasize text, in several different ways.

Indicating

How to indicate definitions, files, etc.

Emphasis

How to emphasize text.