- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:04:03 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
Hi Laurens, At 02:57 13/07/2005, Laurens Holst wrote: >Simon Siemens wrote: > >>Yes, we have additional semantics by "code" and "blockcode". But what is >>the usage? It's the same as adding a tag for exclamation sentences like: > >Well, as a use case, look at the following example [1]: >(...) (Laurens quotes an example of blockcode from the current draft, with a CSS style sheet to number each line.) >This would create automatic line numbering, which makes sense for code, >but not for other preformatted content such as a poem where whitespace >matters [2]. Line numbering does make sense for poetry, even in poems where whitespace matters. It is common practice in literature textbooks. Any academic edition of plays by Shakespeare (and near-cotemporaries) also uses line numbering. However, in such textbooks and editions, only every fifth or tenth line gets a number. Moreover, when quoting a literary text, you woulnd't use blockcode but blockquote. For poems where whitespace matters, I find blockquote (with CSS white-space:pre) preferable to the pre element. Regards, Christophe Strobbe >(...) > >[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-text.html#sec_9.7. >[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-structural.html#sec_8.7. >[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-structural.html#sec_8.2. > >-- >Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san!! By the way, what does this mean? -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/
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