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<span id="Marking-Text_002c-Words-and-Phrases"></span><h2 class="chapter">7 Marking Text, Words and Phrases</h2>
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<p>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.
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