Re: new HTML spec, sample implementation

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Subject: Re: new HTML spec, sample implementation 
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:20:08 CST
From: Dan Connolly <connolly@pixel.convex.com>

>I have also edited the general description of HTML to bring it  
>further into line with the DTD, I hope.  I have reorganised it so  
>that there is more scope for adding detailed guidance and more  
>examples.

Ok... we're getting close to a workable document here. I have
some suggestions for the organization.

The "Hypertext Markup Language" document I wrote was supposed
to replace the root of the HTML documentation. I suggest we
merge them. I'll work on it and let you know what I come
up with.

>I have put in a WIDTH attribute on PRE.  I have put in LINK.
>Could we have both in the DTD next time?

The WIDTH attribute is there. I'll add LINK.

>I could do with references for the origins of the character  
>highlighting elements, so as to pick up descriptions of them.  I have  
>just guessed in  
>http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/Highlighting.html.

From (texinfo)Specifying in the GNU info hierarchy:

`@code'
     Indicates text that is a literal example of a piece of a program.

`@samp'
     Indicates text that is a literal example of a sequence of
     characters.

`@kbd'
     Indicates the names of keys on the keyboard or characters you
     type.

`@key'
     Used for the conventional name for a key on a keyboard.

`@var'
     Indicates a metasyntactic variable.

`@dfn'
     Indicates the introductory or defining use of a term.

`@cite'
     Indicates the name of a book.

[I left @file out of HTML -- can't remember why.]

From Emph and Strong:

`@emph' and `@strong' are two forms of emphasis.  `@strong' is
stronger.

From Fonts:

@i,  @b and @t
--------------

These three commands specify font changes in the printed manual and
have no effect in the Info file.  `@i' requests italic font (in some
versions of TeX, a slanted font is used), `@b' requests bold face,
and `@t' requests the fixed-width font used by `@kbd'.  All three
commands apply to an argument that follows, surrounded by braces.

If possible, you should avoid using these three commands.  If you
find a need to use one, it probably indicates a lack in the Texinfo
language.

Dan