- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 10:54:57 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
Murray Maloney wrote: > That is not true. Any publication worth its salt will provide a semantic > mapping > of sorts, either like a legend on a map, or as a set of typographic > conventions > employed in the document. That is, the semantic binding is late, as it > were. Generally this is a specific characteristic of computer related material intended for the general public, or application developers. The most that you will find in academic material is in the style guide for contributors at the back of some journals, which is intended for writers, not readers. You also find it where there is heavy use of such codes, like in dictionaries. In most other fields of endeavour, it is just understood as part of the general rules of style. E.g. a newspaper might italicise ship names, but it would have a key saying that that was what it was doing. A lot of the use in computer related materials is to do with the use of meta language, because computers generally have some HCI language, in some cases formed of letters an numbers, in some cases, like with computer based consumer electronics, just function keys.
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