Re: Change bars

Dave_Raggett <dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com>

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From: Dave_Raggett <dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Message-id: <9308061739.AA21493@manuel.hpl.hp.com>
Subject: Re: Change bars
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 93 18:39:14 BST
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Jim Davis, commenting on Tom's suggestion:

> Procedural markup like <em strikeout> would not allow this.  Semantic
> markup will.  I regret that I don't have a specific proposal of my own
> as to how to do this markup.

I would like to suggest using the HTML+ EM tag:

    a)  two new logical roles:  "deletion", "addition"

    b)  a new rendering hint: strikeout

e.g. <em role=deletion strikeout>old text</em> and then a bit later
     some <em role=addition> new text</em>.

Dave Raggett