- From: Alex Hopmann <hopmann@holonet.net>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 13:29:03 -0700
- To: wmperry@spry.com, www-style@www10.w3.org
>Alex Hopmann writes: > >> > > A generic character-level text container tag in HTML 3.0 would be >> > > extremely useful for applying styles to certain blocks of text. I >> > > propose the following tag: >> > > >> > > <TEXT>...</TEXT> >> > >> >This would be very useful indeed, and will talk to Dave Raggett about >> >it. >> This seems similar in intent to the <C> tag that I propsed in my character >> formatting proposal (With the obvious addition of style sheet information). >> >> Is that correct? What are the relative merrits of calling it <C> (character) >> vs. <TEXT>? > > The only difference I could see is readability (of both the HTML and the >stylesheet) I guess I was thinking that the <C> tag fits in with the concept of formatting being broken down to Document->Section->Paragraph->Character (Similar to MS Word). The only real problem I have with <TEXT> is that it seems almost too general, but maybe that isn't a bad thing. I suppose from an SGML point of view, <TEXT> could contain pararaphs, and anything else, whereas you might interpret <C> as something that is not supposed to contain anything other than possibly other character markup. Alex Hopmann ResNova Software, Inc. hopmann@holonet.net
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