- From: Steve Knoblock <knoblock@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 14:09:28 -0400
- To: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>, Chris Josephes <cpj1@visi.com>, David Siegel <dave@verso.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
I do this when marking up text: <p class=initial>... and set whatever properties I want. I hope the pseudo class does not become a catch-all dustbin for doing things that should be done in markup classing. Otherwise we ought to move to SGML where you can have your own <initialpara>text</initialpara> or such and hang a style directly on it. All you need is one of those search and replace over files applications to search out <p> and replace it with <p class=initial>. I totally agree with you about headings. It's been a standard recommendation to use H3 when you mean H1 for a long time. Sometimes I like to follow the advice to make all heading the same font-size and differentiate them by font-variant. I've noticed that em value in IE does not seem to relate to any font-size the way I understand em is defined. Steve >> <p class=firstpar>This is the first paragraph >> </p> >> >> <p>This is the second paragraph >> </p> >> >> And then throw in the necessary styles to differentiate the two. > >I think that's the problem - you can't apply a style sheet to existing >(orthodox) HTML to produce this commonly-desired rendering. You have to >resort to markup. A lot hinges on this - very few people use the H1 >element, for instance, because in order to differentiate six levels of >heirarchy beneath it when even simple paragraphs are separated with a whole >blank line, you have to make H1 frighteningly huge. It gets worse from >there. > >What we need is a P:initial pseudoclass. > >----- > >Has anybody else determined what IE4's em value is derived from? I notice >that it does not depend on the actual font in use, or is at least not >recalculated when the base font size changes. I think it should be. Others? > >________________________________________ >Todd Fahrner >fahrner@pobox.com > >The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the >infinitude of books, must be transcended. THE ELECTRO-LIBRARY. > >--El Lissitzky, 1923 > > > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ Steve Knoblock _/ City Gallery - History of Photography http://www.webcom.com/cityg _/ Member NSA http://www.3d-web.com/nsa/sw.html
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