| Type of formatting | Element | Sample XML | Appearance |
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| bold | b | <b>bold text</b> | bold text |
| italic | i | <i>italic text</i> | italic text |
| strikethrough | strike | <strike>strikethrough text</strike> | strikethrough text |
| underline | u | <u>underline text</u> | underline text |
| superscript text | sup | <sup>superscript text</sup> | textsupercript |
| subscript text | sub | <sub>subscript text</sub> | textsubcript |
| line break | br | text<br>text | The line break tag <br> forces a new line wherever it is placed on a page |
| a soft line break | softbr | text<softbr>text | Inserts a soft line break
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| a change of font | font | text<font type="Helvetica">text</font>text | Specifies a new font to be used for rendering the enclosed text |
| double-underline | uu | <uu>double-underline text</uu> | |
| text in a roman font | roman | text<roman>text</roman>text | |
| small capitals | smallcapitals | text<smallcapitals>text</smallcapitals>text | |
| highlight | hightlight | text | |
| text in a sansserif font | sansserif | text <sansserif>text</sansserif> text | |
| text in a scriptface font | scriptface | text <scriptface>text</scriptface> text | |
| text in a monospace font | tt | text <tt>text</tt> text | text text text |
| text in a slanted font | slanted | text <slanted>text</slanted> text | |
| symbol | symbol | <!ENTITY Aacute "<symbol name='Aacute' unicode='00C1' type='html' glyph='@Aacute;' description='capital A, acute accent' ascii='A' > </symbol>"> | |
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