- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 14:29:58 -0500
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > >>Having an element NAME would be very useful. > > Could you expand on this? For things like films, books, etc, I was > thinking of "clarifying" the definition of <cite>, but I haven't really > thought of that much yet. I don't know what exactly Anne was referring to, but from going through an old type-composition book, I found the need for - title of long work (usually put in italics) - title of short work (usually put in quotes) - name of important/holy person (sometimes put in small-caps) - instance of (technical) term There are a lot of sub-types of "title of work", but you can, at least in English, sort them into the categories "long" and "short" and this is sufficient for most typesetting practice. I haven't yet looked into typesetting practices for other locales. Someone suggested co-opting <abbr> to handle smileys. I also think we need an element for expressing things like *runs away*. ~fantasai
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