Re: elements for basic academic articles

Hi Robin, Tzviya, Daniel,

>> In RASH (https://github.com/essepuntato/rash/), we use a different
>> approach to deal with the headings that is basically handled by nested
>> section. The idea is to use always “h1” element to identify section
>> titles, while the way they are visualised by a browser is handled by CSS
>> and strictly dependent on the actual position in the hierarchical
>> organisation of the sections/sub-sections. Here an example:

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Thanks a lot for your answers, and I totally agree with the point you are raising here, in particular if we consider the interchangeability of the format first.

> I think that this boils down to the sort of decision about authoring
> versus interchange formats I made in another thread. The sort of model
> you describe is great for authors.

Yes, indeed. That choice in RASH was made exactly for that: since we didn’t have visual tools to support authors in creating HTML5 scholarly documents, we wanted to keep things as easy as possible to in order to simplify the authoring of such documents by using simple text editors. 

Related to this issue (i.e., prefer h1-h6 instead of h1 only), I would like to see that the SH format we are trying to build won't allow to express the same semantics by means of different elements. In order to make everything simpler with SH, I think it would be good to bind a particular structural semantics behaviour to only one element. For instance, the case I would like to avoid (for example) is to use “i” and “em” interchangeably for expressing the same semantics. But this, maybe, is something that would be discussed more in depth in the near future.

Have a nice day :-)

S.




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