- From: John Whelan <whelan@itp.unibe.ch>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 18:34:57 +0100 (MET)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org, nir@nirdagan.com
> What realy matters is to use CITE, VAR etc. when appropriate > and not I or EM for all "italized" words. > > Some people who try to improve their documents do > so by replacing all their <I> with <EM>. This is an error. Exactly. The idea is not to use EM in place of I, but to use EM, CITE, VAR etc as appropriate for the context. However, there are some cases where none of the defined syntactic phrase elements explain why a phrase is logically italicized. In the short term, I think there's nothing wrong with using I in those cases, for instance <I LANG="fr">je ne sais quoi</I>. You could of course use a SPAN, and stylesheets, but the intended impact will be more widely received if you also mark the phrase up as italics-for-a-logical-reason-not-covered-by-anything-else. Purely stylistic italics, such as italicized section headings, should of course be done with the appropriate logical elements plus stylesheets. John T. Whelan whelan@iname.com http://www.slack.net/~whelan/
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