style guide cross referencing

teaching: 10

exercises: 0

questions:

- "What tone and style should be used for Carpentries lessons?"

- "How are keyboard key combinations written?"

- "How are short spans of code written?"

objectives:

- "Explain keyboard key combination."

- "Locate documentation for general matters of style in The Carpentries"

- "Identify uses of the span of code markdown feature"

keypoints:

- "Keyboard keys need to use `<kbd>` HTML tag."

- "The Carpentries Handbook contains a style guide"

- "Keyboard actions are described using the `<kbd>` HTML tag."

- "The backtick (_\`_) is used as a span of code indicator for code and 

  output in narrative text."

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This lesson contains specifc style guidance and their implementation using features

of The Carpentries lesson template.  For more general matters of style, see the 

[Style Guide](https://docs.carpentries.org/topic_folders/communications/style-guide.html) 

in The Carpentries Handbook.

## Emphasis

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