- From: Lynn Alford <lynn.alford@jcu.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:00:35 +1000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 08:58 10/04/01 -0700, you wrote: >At 08:38 AM 4/10/2001, laura.dangelo@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca wrote: >>We have some International Pension Agreements that are next to impossible to >>format without using the <blockquote> tag and since we can not use >><blockquote> for formatting text, I am investigating other alternatives. > >Why would they be impossible to format without using <blockquote>? >I'm confused. > >If they are block quotations, then they should be marked up using ><blockquote>. If they are not, then they should not be marked up >using <blockquote>. > >If you need to, say, indent sections of text, then you should use >Cascading Style Sheets to produce that indentation effect. Agreed, most of my style sheets have a style like .tab { margin-left : 2em; margin-right : 2em; } which is used as <p class="tab">Indent this stuff.</p> and sometimes I will specify several levels of tab by .tab1 { margin-left : 4em; margin-right : 4em; } for a deeper indent. Lynn -- Teaching & Learning Development Tel (07) 47 81 5525 ACADEMIC SUPPORT DIVISION Fax: (07) 47 81 4018 James Cook University Email: imla@jcu.edu.au QLD 4811 AUSTRALIA
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