- From: Philip & Le Khanh <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>
- Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 11:11:37 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
David Woolley wrote: > In most other fields of endeavour, it is just understood > as part of the general rules of style. E.g. a newspaper > might italicise ship names, but it would have a key saying > that that was what it was doing. With the first part of this assertion, I agree 100%; but the first part is in conflict with the second part, and I cannot think of a single newspaper that glosses "house style" for the benefit of the first-time reader. If one is /really/ uncertain why a particular stretch of text is italicised, one could consult Hart [1] to see the normal usages for italics in current practice. Philip Taylor -------- Hart’s Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford
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