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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Marking Up Taxonomic Names
Mike Taylor wrote: >Then I wondered about <foreignphrase>, but first that's not really >quite accurate, and second, the Processing Expectations section in the >book just says "ForeignPrases are _often_ given special typographical >treatment, such as italics" (emphasis added) which isn't good enough. > > This seems quite correct to me. These names are in italics because they are foreign and, if the output mechanism cannot handle italics, some other mechanism may be used as a fall back (such as underlining as we did in the days of mechanical typewriters). I do it regularly. Nigel -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Nigel Hardy Tel: +44 1970 622 434. http://users.aber.ac.uk/nwh/ Dept. Computer Sci, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, UK Adran Cyfrifiadureg, Prifysgol Cymru, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, UK
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