- From: Michal Young <young@cs.purdue.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 12:56:27 -0500
- To: philipp@res.enst.fr, Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www10.w3.org>
>Examples of usage of text and idioms are given in seriffed fonts. >Comments on the utilisation and the parts of speech, ie. the >annotation itself, needs to be rendered in a sans-serif font. >It doesn't really matter which: universe, avant-garde, helvetica, >geneva, etc. Isn't this what style sheets are all about? You define a hierarchy of logical tags that distinguishes between examples and comments, and you give suggested fonts for each. The user can override them (perhaps the user is running a text-to-speech browser and prefers a female voice for examples and a male voice for comments), but the map to actual fonts/characteristics should match the "shape" of your hierarchy of logical tags. Am I misunderstanding the basic ideas here? >Can we introduce a new mechanism? <ss> (for sans-serif)? The last thing we need is a proliferation of hard-wired physical formatting tags -- there is just no end to it. An extensible logical tagging system can always be subverted for physical tagging, but it's very hard to recover logical structure from physical tags. ---------------------- Michal Young Purdue University Software Engineering Research Center Department of Computer Sciences 1398 Computer Science Building West Lafayette, IN 47907-1398 voice: 317-494-6023 fax: 317-494-0739 URL: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/young -----------------------
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