- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:48:53 -0500
- To: HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 20:34 +0200, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > In the draft, the semantics of <cite> has been altered to not cover what > it covered in HTML 4. > > HTML 4: "CITE: Contains a citation or a reference to other sources." > > HTML 4 example: > As <CITE>Harry S. Truman</CITE> said, > <Q lang="en-us">The buck stops here.</Q> > More information can be found in <CITE>[ISO-0000]</CITE>. I consider that a bug in the HTML 4 spec. I wish I had reviewed it more closely. I added <cite> to HTML 2 based on stuff like TeXinfo: "Use the @cite command for the name of a book that lacks a companion Info file. The command produces italics in the printed manual, and quotation marks in the Info file." http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/old-gnu/Manuals/texinfo-3.9/html_node/texinfo_108.html The idiom goes back before TeXinfo, of course: "Emphasis: Italics & Quotation Marks ... Titles. The titles of books and the names of periodicals in your text and references." -- Chicago Manual of Style Crib Sheet http://www.docstyles.com/cmscrib.htm "When to use ... The titles of works that stand by themselves, such as books or newspapers: "He wrote his thesis on The Scarlet Letter." " -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italics -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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