- From: Scott E. Preece <preece@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 14:52:48 -0600
- To: seibert@hep.physics.mcgill.ca
- Cc: papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca, www-style@w3.org, html-wg@oclc.org
From: David Seibert <seibert@hep.physics.mcgill.ca> | ... However, even if you use a style | only once, is it really much harder to give it a short descriptive name | that is defined in the header than it is to define it where it is used? | Many authors may find that they are more productive, or that the quality | of their work improves, if they first organize the text conceptually and | then define the necessary styles in the header, instead of trying to | organize text and define styles at the same time. --- As I say, it's not *a lot* harder, it's just an irritant. Great products have irritants designed out. Your last point, however, goes direcctly to my point. Yes, it makes a lot of sense to organize the generic, class-like styles in advance, because they have document-wide significance and are reusable. The places where anonymous styling makes sense are specifically where the intent of the styling is wholly local; I think the author's mental model is likely to NOT predict such uses until the text is actually being written; in fact, that might almost be a defining characteristic of appropriate uses... scott -- scott preece motorola/mcg urbana design center 1101 e. university, urbana, il 61801 phone: 217-384-8589 fax: 217-384-8550 internet mail: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com
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