At 01:41 PM 3/28/2007 -0700, T.V Raman wrote: >In markup languages like LaTeX the \em had a minor but key >difference with \it -- >LaTeX was smart enough to render \em as something distinctive if >it was used within content that was already italicized --- >otherwise \em and \it were equivalent. > >I dont believe visual web browsers have made this distinction >anyway, in which case there is no real distinction. Thanks for mentioning that. I have always tried to write style sheets to take nesting into account. so that italic inside of italic would be normal and italic inside of bold would be bold-italic, etc. I haven't figured out how to manage contexts like that with CSS. Maybe Hakon has some advice.Received on Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:27:19 GMT
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