- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:06:25 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Dr. Olaf Hoffmann" <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Dr. Olaf Hoffmann wrote: > > What I missed so many years in (X)HTML is some useful markup for poems. HTML5 actually defines how to mark up poems in HTML (the word "poem" is in the spec half a dozen times, in fact!). Specifically: - the heading of a poem is marked up using <header> and the appropriate level of <hX> elements, - the stanzas of poems written in the classical form are given by <p> elements, with line breaks indicated by <br> elements (one of the few allowed uses of <br>). - the stanzas of freeform poems are given by <pre> elements. There is an example of a part of a classical poem in the <img> element section (search for "On either side the river lie"). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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