Re: Italics and emphasis (was: Re: Five new proposals about CSS)

On 10/16/05, David Latapie <david@empyree.org> wrote:
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> Le 16 oct. 05 à 18:05, Boris Zbarsky a écrit :
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> > (say every other stanza is italicised)
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> in that case, the roman, *will* be emphasized — by its lack of
> italics. Say
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> .poem    {font-style:italic}
> em       {font-style:normal}

Is there some point where we say marking up a poem or even ascii art
is something that can be reasonably done with normal semantics. Are
they not a category all to themselves? Perhaps we should recommend
that poems simply be given their own subset of markup or we should
simply leave their domain alone.

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Orion Adrian

Received on Sunday, 16 October 2005 16:22:12 UTC