- From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 12:59:27 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
beowulf wrote: > On 5/14/07, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: >> This I don't understand at all : what is "a semantic use for italics" ??? >> Italics are simply a highly stylised version of a base font; what has >> such a concept to do with a document markup language ? >> > Sorry, but didn't Lachlan write: "var is one of the semantic uses for > italics"? > You seem to have quoted him as saying: "a semantic use for italics" No, I simply /asked/ 'what is "a semantic use for italics"'; I didn't attribute the exact wording to Lachlan or anyone else, but it is directly derivable from Lachlan's wording by a plural-to-singular transformation. > And if you ever have to 'mark up a document' you'd know that you need > /something/ to say that this section should be in italics, or oblique, > type. No, I have never needed to say that, and I have spent much of my professional life marking up documents. What I /have/ needed to say is that (for example) "the next stretch of text is a foreign phrase", or "the next stretch of text requires emphasis", or "the next stretch of text is a scientific name", and then marked up the document accordingly. Saying "that this section should be in italics, or oblique, type" is not a part of document markup at all, but is something that has to be considered when converting from marked-up to final format (i.e., something that is within the aegis of CSS rather than of HTML). Philip Taylor
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