- From: Robert J Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:15:07 -0500
- To: "Justin James" <j_james@mindspring.com>
- Cc: "'Sam Kuper'" <sam.kuper@uclmail.net>, "'Ivan Enderlin'" <w3c@hoa-project.net>, "'Olivier GENDRIN'" <olivier.gendrin@gmail.com>, "'Ben Boyle'" <benjamins.boyle@gmail.com>, "'Chris Wilson'" <Chris.Wilson@microsoft.com>, "'HTML WG'" <public-html@w3.org>
Hi Justin, On Oct 29, 2008, at 7:20 AM, Justin James wrote: > Again, if <q> adds punctuation, so should <p> and any other element > which represents grammar. You keep repeating this analogy, without recognizing that it goes completely against what you're saying. The p element DOES add punctuation in the same way that the q elements adds punctuation. The following HTML: <p>here is a paragraph.</p><p>And that paragraph is followed by another paragraph.</p> will be rendered here is a paragraph. And that paragraph is followed by another paragraph. With new lines inserted between the paragraphs. The major difference is that a paragraph is almost universally presented with new lines between them, whereas a quotation has many different possible presentations (sometimes with quotation marks and sometimes without quotations marks). Though a paragraph might change the indentation, the paragraph spacing and first-line indentation, it is much more universally presented with the same newline punctuation than a semantic quotation which has diverse presentations. In both cases — paragraph (P) and quotation (Q) — the author is responsible for inserting the genuine semantic and non-presentational punctuation (commas, periods, sentence capitalization, etc.). Take care, Rob
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