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Originally Posted by KevinH
That would be the role of the attribute, not the tag. Otherwise you need lots of tags just to handle semantic meaning.
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We do have a lot of tags to handle semantic meaning, but not everyone uses them, preferring plain old <i>, because they're seeking only to reproduce the look of a printed book, which I suppose is fine, even if ignoring blind people whose ebook might be in Braille if there was the technology. I don't know how Braille does italic, do they slant the dots? But whether it is a tag or an attribute, the end meaning will be the same. Are attributes saving any work over a dedicated tag? One still has to think about semantic content and tag it appropriately.