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Subject: Re: DocBook XSL 1.67.0 released
> * Michael Smith <fzvgu@kzy-qbp.bet> [2004-11-12 02:12:16 +0900]: > > Yeah, "em" means "emphasis". But "i" does not mean "italic" -- it > _is_ italic. "i" is a command to a browser, saying, "render this > in italic type". It is purely and completely presentational and > carries not one ounce of meaning. > > Please let's pretend that b and i and tt don't exist and never > have existed, and then let's continue from there. > > How is it any more appropriate to suggest that the stylesheets > should output b and i in HTML than it would be to suggest that > DocBook should contain <bold> and <italic> elements? eventually you are going to get to a sufficiently low level where you must specify how a specific character looks like. you are trying to push this task off your table - to the browser or CSS. this is fine with me - as long as the final appearance is correct, what I am trying to say is that "em" is not the same as "i" and rendering <varname> as <em> is may be wrong because then the variable names will be italic in some places and normal in others. > Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes: > >> > * Michael Smith <fzvgu@kzy-qbp.bet> [2004-11-10 05:56:16 +0900]: >> > >> > * Use strong/em instead of b/i in HTML output >> >> with all due respect, I am not quite sure that this is completely >> correct. >> >> I thought that "em" meant "emphasis" while "i" meant italic. >> This, "em" should _toggle_ italic, while "i" should turn it on >> unconditionally. >> Thus, the following: >> <i>italic <em>not italic</em> italic again</i> >> (at least TeX does something like that with ¥em and ¥it). >> >> If my understanding is correct, then this change might not be correct. -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k <http://www.camera.org> <http://www.iris.org.il> <http://www.memri.org/> <http://www.mideasttruth.com/> <http://www.honestreporting.com> My other CAR is a CDR.
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