- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:01:32 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Jan Roland Eriksson wrote:
> If you are referring to a visual presentation of 'italic' within
> 'italic' your statement is not correct according to what I have learned
> from traditional typesetting practices.
>
> 'italic' (or cursive really) within 'italic' reverts to the normal font
> presentation as per recommendations from the "old timers lead poisoned
> brain" :)
Are you sure about this? Or are the ``old timers lead poisoned brain''
really trying to say if emphisis is nested in ephisis then to revert to
the normal font. I suspect this is the case (I'm no expert), and that
the difference between style and semantics was blurred in the old days, so
hence the poor phrasing of the rule.
I honestly expect everything inside and <i> elment to be in italics
regardless of the context. Why would I have said ``put this in italics''
if that's not why I wanted?
--
Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~roconnor/>
``Paradoxically, a refusal to `put a monetary value on life' means that
life is often undervalued.'' -- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
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