- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:23:48 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Christoph P?per wrote: > Ian Hickson: > > On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, fantasai wrote: > >> How does one mark up a bibliography? The whole entry is a <cite>, really, > >> although only the title part should be in italics. > > > > I've given an example of a bibliography. > > Yes, but for quite a simple case. Maybe the bibliography example should > cover some common cases explicitly, e.g. a monograph, an article in a > periodical, a speech at a conference etc. Could you provide the text of such citations? I would be happy to determine the right markup add more examples to the spec. > FWIW in non-fictional writing I always put names of people in smallcaps > (but never uppercase) where technology allows (incl. handwriting), so I > need some kind of markup for them. I previously tended to use |cite| for > lack of a better alternative, now I consider |i| and |b| about equally > well suited; I really do not want to use |span|. <b> would be well-suited for this according to the current spec. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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