- From: William F. Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- Date: 18 Apr 2002 15:16:41 -0400
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
- Cc: <bookquestions@oreilly.com>
"Laurie Brown" <laurieb@tidalwave.net> writes:
> While this looks OK with the current default behavior of browsers--i.e.,
> skipping a line between before and after elements denoted as paragraphs--it
> may not in the future depending on rendering styles. In addition, it does
> not seem to me to be semantically correct.
Yes, it's not semantically correct. HTML does not provide a suitable
markup vocabulary for literate writing.
You might want to think about using something more sophisticated such
as TEI markup from the Text Encoding Initiative
(http://www.tei-c.org).
-- Bill
Received on Thursday, 18 April 2002 15:16:49 UTC