- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 22:25:56 -0400 (EDT)
- To: mikebat@clark.net (Mike Batchelor)
- Cc: www-html@www10.w3.org
> > Paul Prescod once wrote... > > > > > > <EM> *might* work... what if I want all occurences of a certain word > > > > to appear in small caps? No character-level tag I know of is a good > > > > substitute for small caps. > > > > You do not need this. HTML is an SGML language. SGML supports entities. > > Entities do what you ask. You just make a &prodname; entity and the > > browser should do the rest. Your &prodname; entity can have all of the > > formatting you need. > > I predict that when HTML 3 is more widely adopted and Netscape is a bad > memory, <font> fans will start doing <H1>H<small>EY</small> > L<small>OOK</small> W<small>HAT</small> I C<small>AN</small> > D<small>O</small>!</H1> > > Sorry to be such a pessimist. I've been reading comp.infosystems.www.* > lately. :( I agree. I must admit I'm disappointed with the existance of <small>, <big> et. al. I do think we need something for legal text, but it should not be <small>, it should be <legal>, or <note role="legal>. And unimportant text should be <note role="deemphasize"> Paul Prescod
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