Formatting elements

Type of formattingElementSample XMLAppearance
boldb<b>bold text</b>bold text
italici<i>italic text</i>italic text
strikethroughstrike<strike>strikethrough text</strike>strikethrough text
underlineu<u>underline text</u>underline text
superscript textsup<sup>superscript text</sup>textsupercript
subscript textsub<sub>subscript text</sub>textsubcript
line breakbrtext<br>textThe line break tag <br> forces a new line wherever it is placed on a page
a soft line breaksoftbrtext<softbr>textInserts a soft line break
a change of fontfonttext<font type="Helvetica">text</font>textSpecifies a new font to be used for rendering the enclosed text
double-underlineuu<uu>double-underline text</uu>
text in a roman fontromantext<roman>text</roman>text
small capitalssmallcapitalstext<smallcapitals>text</smallcapitals>text
highlighthightlighttext
text in a sansserif fontsansseriftext <sansserif>text</sansserif> text
text in a scriptface fontscriptfacetext <scriptface>text</scriptface> text
text in a monospace fonttttext <tt>text</tt> texttext text text
text in a slanted fontslantedtext <slanted>text</slanted> text
symbolsymbol<!ENTITY Aacute "<symbol name='Aacute' unicode='00C1' type='html' glyph='@Aacute;' description='capital A, acute accent' ascii='A' > </symbol>">

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