- From: Steven Champeon <schampeo@hesketh.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 15:42:09 -0500
- To: Web Design <webdesign@list.webmonster.net>, Web Designer <webdesigner@Knight-Ridder.COM>, www-html@w3.org
I just realized what I really want. I want a PostScript-like way to define shortcut tags. SGML has this, it's called entity references and SHORTREFs. For example, I'm tagging some documents and want some of the text to be displayed using Times at size 6. I'd use the following markup: <font face="Times" size=6>text</font> Well, that can get pretty bulky after a while. What I'd like to be able to do is something like this: <!ENTITY "myf6" "<font face=Times size=6>"> <BODY ...> ... %myf6; text </font> or #myf6; text </font> ... </BODY> I know that we should all being using style sheets in the future, but I can't help but think that SHORTREFs or entity references might be a more flexible solution until CSS supports nested styles, or might be used in common with CSS to allow for complicated use of CSS-defined styles. Am I right out to lunch here, or would this be hard to implement? Steve -- Steven Champeon ! I'll sleep Web Guru/Intranet Builder ! when I'm dead. schampeo@hesketh.com ! - Zevon
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