- From: Stijn Peeters <stijn.p@hccnet.nl>
- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:02:47 +0200
Rachid Finge schreef: > The term 'lede' is more commonly spelled as 'lead' by journalists > throughout the world. It seems like a sensible idea, although I'm > wondering why you added the P element in your example. > I'm not an expert on this, but wikipedia distinguishes them (of course wikipedia is not absolute truth): "Lede (pronounced /lid/) is a traditional spelling, from the archaic English, used to avoid confusion with the printing press type formerly made from lead or the typographical term 'leading'." [1] Anyway, I think this is a sensible idea indeed. I suppose the <lede> element would be used inside a <p> element, surrounding the first sentence or so, as a lead/lede is different from (or, as far as I know, a part of) the first paragraph. Regards, Stijn [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lede_%28news%29#Terms_and_structure -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20071002/ff342939/attachment.htm>
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