- From: Nicolas MONTESSUIT <p7lii016@cicrp.jussieu.fr>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:44:22 +0200 (DST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
Does there exist a specification concerning text parentheses and/or
the text dashes -- like these ?
It might be interesting to tag them, because they are used a lot,
and they have a simple semantic meaning.
e.g, one could try :
This is a sentence <paren> believe me </paren> which includes
a lot of parentheses <paren> which may be <paren> as they say
</paren> mind-boggling </paren>.
which would yield ==>
This is a sentence (believe me) which includes a lot of parentheses
(which may be [as they say] mind-boggling).
<paren> may be forced to be a specific kind of parens, e.g:
<paren kind=round> ()
<paren kind=square> []
<paren kind=curly> {}
<paren kind=?> <>
<paren kind=dash> --- --- (LaTeX notation!)
The default value depends on the level of the parentheses,
in french it would be TOP-Level(0) ==> (),
Level(1) ==> [],
Level(2) ==> {}.
This applies only for TEXTS, not programs or anything like that.
Received on Thursday, 15 May 1997 05:46:39 UTC