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Originally Posted by fbrzvnrnd
What I'm doing is create real ebooks. Italic and bold are a analogic way to try to add information to paper. Paper, remember. We are not working on paper and typewriter, we are working with computer, so if we give computer information of data we are tagging, we are going to build real ebook, not a "look at me mama, I'm a book". This is semantic, add information to the text we are build to use it for make other things or to allow other people to use it. We formalize because we provide information to the computer that needs this. More formalize, more we can do with our ebooks.
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What you're describing seems to be a lot like the margin notes I have some in multi volume leather bound editions of Macaulay and Gibbon, published early 20th century. They are short explanatory notes/reminders, quite distinct from footnotes and references. I don't have the books here, however I have a vague recollection the margin notes are indexed by their keyword/phrase - headword index is ringing a bell, and of course they both have a massive normal index - the references, notes and index for the Macaulay is an entire volume.
BR