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Originally Posted by fbrzvnrnd
Again: why the author is using a italic? "It is a dream sequence". There is a "dream tag"? Not in XHTML. Maybe in TEI, I don't know (for example, in TEI we have tag for ironic sentences). XHTML give us poor poor semantics.
What I do if I have a "dream sequence"?
Code:
<div class="dream">
<p>Three times Randolph Carter dreamed of the marvellous city, and three times was he snatched away while still he paused on the high terrace above it. (et ceterae)</p>
</div>
if there is not a semantic for dreams, why fill the xhtml code of <i> to remember a typographic way to handle the text, when I can simply add a .dream p {font-style:italic} in css?
My point of view oblivious. And, yes, the non-novel book are more suitable to receive semantic works. |
This would require the ebook creator (who, in most situations is not the author) to have a detailed understanding of the author's motivation for every instance of applying formatting to text. In many situations such information is simply not available.