The Sile PDF says
> There is no shortcut for boldface, because boldface isn’t good typographic practice and so we don’t want to make it easy for you to make bad books.
Where/what is that from? Like is that common "knowledge"?
> There is no shortcut for boldface, because boldface isn’t good typographic practice and so we don’t want to make it easy for you to make bad books.
Where/what is that from? Like is that common "knowledge"?
What you definitely shouldn’t do is underlining, though: http://practicaltypography.com/underlining.html
I've read a handful of books where there is some type of bold formatting used, and in each case it was electronic rich text (e.g an email or word document).