- From: fantasai <fantasai@escape.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:28:16 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
Daniel Glazman wrote: > > (a) the l element is purely presentational: it _is_ a line. It's not less > presentational than <br/>. I dispute that. In some contexts, a line is semantic. Not so in prose paragraphs, perhaps, but certainly in poetry. It's important enough that when verse quotations are collapsed into paragraphs, the line break is preserved as a slash. > (b) it is useful only when you have a list of adjacent lines. So it's > basically a list (ul/ol) with list items (li) having no marker and > no wrapping. > (c) using ul/ol/li instead of l makes it MUCH easier to number lines > since you have a known container to reset the numbering. Listing the lines of a sonnet in an OL is IMO ridiculous. It is in no way a list. ~fantasai
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