Editing Template:Em/doc (section)

===Use cases===
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This template is made to [[:wikt:emphasis|mildly emphasize]] an important word or phrase in a passage, in a way that is (unlike simply italicizing it) [[Semantic markup|semantically meaningful markup]]. With this technique, the emphasized text stands out from the rest of the nearby text in most if not all visual browsers and some text-to-speech screen readers (which usually ignore purely typographic italicization), without strongly affecting scannability. It can also be parsed by user agents and other software as definitively indicating emphasis, not just some typographic boldface effect for appearance's sake. It should therefore only be used sparingly in articles, to highlight something being stressed (e.g., to represent strong vocal emphasis). Example:

* "<code><nowiki>Contrary to reports, she was {{em|not}} dead after all.</nowiki></code>"<br />"Contrary to reports, she was {{em|not}} dead after all."

It is also occasionally used for disambiguation, e.g. between two adjacent but different uses of the same word or homonym ("What it {{em|is}} is a kind of custard."), but this usage is not often encyclopedic and can (when not found in a direct quotation) usually be rewritten to avoid the awkward construction.