- 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
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