- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:16:38 +0000
- To: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > Philip TAYLOR wrote: > >> I teach the use of <em class="..."> and (where appropriate) >> <strong class="...">; examples of "..." that I frequently >> adduce are : >> >> stress (the normal case) >> foreign-word >> latin-abbreviation >> book-title >> ship-name > > > That sounds pretty stupid IMHO. You do not want to put emphasis on the > ship name, you just want it to match the style guide. Yes, <span class="ship-name"> might be better; I created the list on the fly, without referring to my notes, but see below for a defence of <em class="ship-name"> ... > For book names, how about CITE? I would normally restrict <CITE> to real citations (e.g., <cite>Gibson, 1984</cite>), where it would normally be nested with an <a> element linking to an entry in the bibliography; I feel uncomfortable about generalising it to encompass /any/ possible citation, although such usage is most certainly defensible. > (Same for similar examples you gave. It is not s/B/STRONG/ and s/I/EM/.) I agree with your last sentence, but not (necessarily) with the preceding; if HTML lacks a <FOO> element, then which is better : <em class="foo"> or <span class="foo"> when the /normal/ typographic representation of a foo leads to visual emphasis ? Philip Taylor
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