- From: Tim Bannister <isoma@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 00:28:19 +0100 (BST)
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Bert Bos wrote: > John Anthony Lewis writes: > > > In printing, I believe it's common that, e.g., a > > comma is italicized if the word before the comma is > > italicized. Now, let's say I'm marking up a document > > in XML, and I have a 'movie' element for marking > > movies. I don't want to have '<movie>American > > Beauty,</movie>' because the comma isn't part of the > > movie's title. However, assuming I have a style > > sheet that renders all movies in italic type, what > > can I do to italicize the comma without introducing > > extraneous markup? > > I don't know what the best solution would be, but here are some > possibilities: > > 1) Use more mark-up, such as attributes: > > ... the movie <movie title="American Beauty">American > Beauty,</movie> which... ...or even more markup, such as: <sentence>the quick brown fox <clause type="aside">which had escaped the hounds</clause> jumped over the lazy dog</sentence> Italic text followed by (say) a roman exclamation mark looks wrong, to me. -- mailto:isoma@compsoc.man.ac.uk - +447980408788 - Tim Bannister
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