Re: Where are Fonts and Phrases allowed? [Was: HTML 2.0 Call for Review ]
Murray Maloney <murray@sco.COM>
Subject: Re: Where are Fonts and Phrases allowed? [Was: HTML 2.0 Call for Review ]
To: html-ig@oclc.org
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 17:57:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Murray Maloney <murray@sco.COM>
In-reply-to: <9406101945.AA08051@ulua.hal.com> from "Daniel W. Connolly" at Jun 10, 94 03:47:56 pm
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Dan Connoly writes:
>
> But there's a more critical question which is: what is the _specified_
> behaviour of the EM, B, I, STRONG, etc. elements? That is, when an
> author writes <em>something like this</em>, we don't want to require
> that conforming implementations necesarily have to convert this to
> italics. (Because, for example, this makes not sense for applications
> like HTML readers for the blind).
>
Funny you should mention this. Yuri Rubinsky was telling me
about the "markup" that the braille system uses for emphasis.
In fact, they do use a special sequence of dots to inform
the reader when emphasized text begins and ends, and they
do (as I recall) specifically use codes to denote italic
and bold text. Strange, but (as I remember the discussion) true.
Murray