- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:19:11 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
Boris Zbarsky wrote: > In speech you would explicitly say that the text is italicised. > > Consider for example giving a lecture on a poem in which the author > italicised certain words and talking about the impact of that decision > on the way the reader perceives the poem visually. In your lecture, the > italics is not tradition or custom, but of the essence -- it's being > discussed. So you mention it explicitly when quoting the poem. What if the author of the poem decided to put certain words in red, for instance? What then? Or how about futurist poems where the layout, colour, line work, etc are all part of the author's intention? With the poetry argument we may as well abandon the whole "separation of content and presentation" entirely then... -- Patrick H. Lauke __________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com __________________________________________________________ Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ __________________________________________________________
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