Too much bold
bold-densityon by defaultJapanese / English
So much bold text that nothing stands out any more
Example
Flagged
## How to apply
Send the **form** to **HR** by the **end of the month**. The form is in the shared folder. You can print it and fill it in by hand, or type into it on screen and then print it. It needs your **manager's signature**, so give it to your manager at least three days before the deadline. **Late forms** will **not** be **accepted**, whatever the reason. If you have a question, call the HR desk between nine and five on a weekday.
What chaff prints
3:1 7 bold spans in 318 characters (limit 20 per 1000)
Fixed
## How to apply
Send the form to HR. **The deadline is the end of the month, and late forms will not be accepted, whatever the reason.** The form is in the shared folder. You can print it and fill it in by hand, or type into it on screen and then print it. It needs your manager's signature, so give it to your manager at least three days before the deadline. If you have a question, call the HR desk between nine and five on a weekday.
What chaff prints
no finding
How to fix
Keep one or two, unbold the rest.
Why it matters
Bold marks what matters. Used everywhere, it marks nothing.
What it does not flag
Sections under 200 characters are not measured, since one bold span would swing the rate.
Turning it off or relaxing it
Silence this one spot (in the document)
<!-- stet: bold-density — reason -->
Relax it for the team (the reason is kept as a comment in chaff.yaml)
npx chaffjs relax bold-density --why "reason"
Turn it off for the team (chaff.yaml)
rules:
bold-density: off
Technical details
- Layer
- L1
- Status
- stable
- Severity
- warning
- Languages
- Japanese and English
- Suited to
- blog, business, technical, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech
Levels
Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).
| strict | up to 10 bold spans per 1000 characters |
|---|---|
| normal | up to 20 bold spans per 1000 characters |
| relaxed | up to 40 bold spans per 1000 characters |
By genre
- Runs by default in
- technical/spec, technical/readme, blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes, legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play, speech/address, speech/transcript
Message
{bolds} bold spans in {chars} characters (limit {limit} per 1000)
Rewrite depth (chaff fix-plan --depth): light — words and sentences; the structure and the voice stay
Sources
This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/bold-density.yaml