Manual of Style:Text formatting

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This page documents the Official GTA Wiki Manual of Style on text formatting.

Formatting[]

Bold text[]

In source editor, bold text can be achieved by surrounding text with three straight apostrophes ('''Bold text'''). Alternatively, the "Bold" button in both the source and visual editor can be used to make the selected text bold.

Only use straight apostrophes.
Do not use bold HTML tags (<b></b>).

In general, bold text is used for:

The subject name or any alternative common names in the lead section.
The subject name in images and gallery captions.
Table headers (automatically applied with the use of the th class; see MOS:TABLE).
Some heading and subheadings (applied automatically; see MOS:HEAD).

Italic text[]

In source editor, italic text can be achieved by surrounding text with two straight apostrophes (''Italic text''). Alternatively, the "Italic" button in both the source and visual editor can be used to make the selected text italic.

Only use straight apostrophes.
Do not use italic HTML tags (<i></i>).

In general, italic text is used for:

Official titles of creative works and media, such as video games (including Grand Theft Auto games), albums, films and books, both in-game and from the real-world (for example, Grand Theft Auto, Die Already 4, It's a GMW Thang!).
Official titles of ships (for example, BTN Delmar).
Annotated translations (for example, "Vacca" comes from the Spanish vaca, meaning "cow").
Quotes, taglines and mottos (applied automatically when using a dialogue or quote template).
Non-article disambiguation and redirect notices, such as those appearing in disambiguation templates (applied automatically).
The GTA Wiki.

Bold and italic text[]

In source editor, bold and italic text can be achieved by surrounding text with five straight apostrophes ('''''Bold and italic text'''''). Alternatively, selecting both the "Bold" and "Italic" buttons in both the source and visual editor will make the selected text bold and italic.

Bold and italic text is typically only used for the official title(s) of creative works when they occur in the lead section.