Re: MostlySemanticMarkup

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 UTC